Self-gravitating stellar collapse: explicit geodesics and path integration

We extend the work of Oppenheimer-Synder to model the gravitational collapse of a star to a black hole by including quantum mechanical effects. We first derive closed-form solutions for classical paths followed by a particle on the surface of the collapsing star in Schwarzschild and Kruskal coordina...

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Main Authors: Jayashree Balakrishna, Ruxandra Bondarescu, Christine Corbett-Moran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fspas.2016.00029/full