The gravitational collapse of a massless scalar with a cosmological constant A is investigated. The mass field enclosed with a perfectly reflecting wall in a spacetime scaling for the gapped collapse MAH -- Mg oc (ec...The gravitational collapse of a massless scalar with a cosmological constant A is investigated. The mass field enclosed with a perfectly reflecting wall in a spacetime scaling for the gapped collapse MAH -- Mg oc (ec -- e) is confirmed and a new time scaling for the gapped collapse Tall -- Tg c( (ec - e)〈 is found. For both the critical exponents, we find strong evidence to show that they are non-universal. Especially when A ~ O, we find that both of these two critical exponents depend on the combination AR2, where R is the radial position of the reflecting wall. We find an evolution of the critical exponent from 0.37 in the confined asymptotic dS case with AR2 = 1.75 to 0.68 in the confined asymptotic AdS case with AR2 -- -1.75, while the critical exponent ( varies from 0.10 to 0.26, which shows that the new critical behavior for the gapped collapse is essentially different from the Choptuik's case.展开更多
基金Supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.11375247 and 11435006a Key Project of CAS,under Grant No.QYZDJ-SSW-SYS006
文摘The gravitational collapse of a massless scalar with a cosmological constant A is investigated. The mass field enclosed with a perfectly reflecting wall in a spacetime scaling for the gapped collapse MAH -- Mg oc (ec -- e) is confirmed and a new time scaling for the gapped collapse Tall -- Tg c( (ec - e)〈 is found. For both the critical exponents, we find strong evidence to show that they are non-universal. Especially when A ~ O, we find that both of these two critical exponents depend on the combination AR2, where R is the radial position of the reflecting wall. We find an evolution of the critical exponent from 0.37 in the confined asymptotic dS case with AR2 = 1.75 to 0.68 in the confined asymptotic AdS case with AR2 -- -1.75, while the critical exponent ( varies from 0.10 to 0.26, which shows that the new critical behavior for the gapped collapse is essentially different from the Choptuik's case.