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Gravitational Collapse of Prolate Brill Waves

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It has been conjectured that the gravitational collapse of sufficiently prolate vacuum axisymmetric gravitational waves (Brill waves) may violate cosmic censorship. Improving on earlier work by Garfinkle and Duncan, I present a numerical evolution of such a prolate initial data set that does form an apparent horizon. Related advances in the construction of axisymmetric constrained evolution schemes are also discussed.

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© 2009 American Institute of Physics. Published online 01 May 2009. I wish to thank Sergio Dain, David Garfinkle, José Luis Jaramillo, John Stewart, and Darragh Walsh for helpful discussions on this work. A travel grant from the Gravitational Waves Section of the European Network of Theoretical Astroparticle Physics / ILIAS to attend this conference is gratefully acknowledged, as is a Research Fellowship at King's College, Cambridge. Earlier parts of this work were supported by grants to Caltech from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation, NSF grant PHY-0601459, and NASA grant NNG05GG52G.

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King's College
Sherman Fairchild Foundation
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