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Sufficient condition for black-hole formation in spherical gravitational collapse

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Published 2 January 2001 • Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
, , Citation Roberto Giambò et al 2002 Class. Quantum Grav. 19 L5 DOI 10.1088/0264-9381/19/2/101

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1 Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università di Camerino, Italy

2 Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

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  1. Received 5 October 2001
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Abstract

A sufficient condition for the validity of cosmic censorship in spherical gravitational collapse is formulated and proved. The condition relies on an attractive mathematical property of the apparent horizon, which holds if 'minimal' requirements of physical reasonableness are satisfied by the matter model.

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