The effect of Pressure in Higher Dimensional Quasi-Spherical Gravitational Collapse

TL;DR

This paper investigates how pressure influences gravitational collapse in higher-dimensional quasi-spherical spacetimes, demonstrating conditions under which the cosmic censorship conjecture holds in six or more dimensions.

Contribution

It explores the impact of anisotropic pressure on collapse outcomes and establishes the validity of the cosmic censorship conjecture in higher dimensions.

Findings

Proper initial data can lead to the validity of CCC in six or higher dimensions.

Pressure plays a significant role in the collapse process.

Both local and global visibility of singularities are analyzed.

Abstract

We study gravitational collapse in higher dimensional quasi-spherical Szekeres space-time for matter with anisotropic pressure. Both local and global visibility of central curvature singularity has been studied and it is found that with proper choice of initial data it is possible to show the validity of CCC for six and higher dimensions. Also the role of pressure in the collapsing process has been discussed.