Naked singularity formation for higher dimensional inhomogeneous dust collapse

TL;DR

This paper explores the formation of naked singularities in higher-dimensional inhomogeneous dust collapse, revealing that such singularities can occur and are gravitationally strong, expanding understanding of gravitational collapse in higher dimensions.

Contribution

It demonstrates the existence and strength of naked singularities in higher-dimensional dust collapse, a novel extension of classical collapse models.

Findings

Naked singularities can form in higher-dimensional dust collapse.

Such singularities are gravitationally strong.

The study extends classical collapse models to higher dimensions.

Abstract

We investigate the occurrence and nature of a naked singularity in the gravitational collapse of an inhomogeneous dust cloud described by higher dimensional Tolman-Bondi space-time. The naked singularities are found to be gravitationally strong.