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QUASI-SPHERICAL GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE AND THE ROLE OF INITIAL DATA, ANISOTROPY AND INHOMOGENEITY

SUBENOY CHAKRABORTY

Department of Mathematics, Jadavpur University, Calcutta 32, India

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Department of Mathematics, Jadavpur University, Calcutta 32, India

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S021773230501580XCited by:6 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

In this paper, the role of anisotropy and inhomogeneity has been studied in quasi-spherical gravitational collapse. Also the role of initial data has been investigated in characterizing the final state of collapse. Finally, a linear transformation on the initial data set has been presented and its impact has been discussed.

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