Critical Phenomena in Gravitational Collapse
As first discovered by Choptuik, the black hole threshold in the space of initial data for general relativity shows both surprising structure and surprising simplicity. Universality, power-law scaling of the black hole mass, and scale echoing have given rise to the term 'critical phenomena'...
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| Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
1999-01-01
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| Series: | Living Reviews in Relativity |
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| Online Access: | http://www.livingreviews.org/lrr-1999-4 |