Stellar collapse with pressure in effective loop quantum gravity

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Main Authors: Cafaro, Luca, Cipriani, Lorenzo, Fazzini, Francesco, Soltani, Farshid
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Published: 2024
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author Cafaro, Luca
Cipriani, Lorenzo
Fazzini, Francesco
Soltani, Farshid
author_facet Cafaro, Luca
Cipriani, Lorenzo
Fazzini, Francesco
Soltani, Farshid
contents We explore semiclassical stellar collapse scenarios with pressure within the framework of effective loop quantum gravity. The objective of this work is to generalize existent models of semiclassical dust collapse and examine the role of pressure in the formation of shell-crossing singularities in a semiclassical context. Numerical investigations show that the shell-focusing singularity characterizing the end state of any classical stellar collapse is here resolved by quantum gravitational effects and replaced by a bounce of the star. However, they also show that shell-crossing singularities remain a general feature of these models and that the inclusion of pressure does not alter the qualitative picture emerging from semiclassical models of inhomogeneous dust collapse. Given the absence of a shell-focusing singularity and the possibility of extending spacetime in the future of the trapped region formed by gravitational collapse, the investigation of the causal structure of the spacetime describing the semiclassical collapse of a star is inevitably tied to a better understanding of the physics of these shell-crossing singularities.
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spellingShingle Stellar collapse with pressure in effective loop quantum gravity
Cafaro, Luca
Cipriani, Lorenzo
Fazzini, Francesco
Soltani, Farshid
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
We explore semiclassical stellar collapse scenarios with pressure within the framework of effective loop quantum gravity. The objective of this work is to generalize existent models of semiclassical dust collapse and examine the role of pressure in the formation of shell-crossing singularities in a semiclassical context. Numerical investigations show that the shell-focusing singularity characterizing the end state of any classical stellar collapse is here resolved by quantum gravitational effects and replaced by a bounce of the star. However, they also show that shell-crossing singularities remain a general feature of these models and that the inclusion of pressure does not alter the qualitative picture emerging from semiclassical models of inhomogeneous dust collapse. Given the absence of a shell-focusing singularity and the possibility of extending spacetime in the future of the trapped region formed by gravitational collapse, the investigation of the causal structure of the spacetime describing the semiclassical collapse of a star is inevitably tied to a better understanding of the physics of these shell-crossing singularities.
title Stellar collapse with pressure in effective loop quantum gravity
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.17678