Work

New critical behavior in Einstein-Yang-Mills collapse

Year: 1999

Type: article

Abstract: We extend the investigation of the gravitational collapse of a spherically symmetric Yang-Mills field in Einstein gravity and show that, within the black hole regime, a new kind of critical behavior arises which separates black holes formed via type I collapse from black holes formed through type II collapse. Further, we provide evidence that these new attracting critical solutions are in fact the previously discovered colored black holes with a single unstable mode.

Source: Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields

DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.60.124011

Authors: Matthew W. Choptuik, Eric W. Hirschmann, Robert L. Marsa

Institutions: University of California, Santa Barbara, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Long Island University

Language: English

Topic: Black Holes and Theoretical Physics

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: National Science Foundation

Awards: Institute for Theoretical Physics, Problems in Numerical Relativity, Black Hole Binaries: Coalescence and Gravitational Radiation