Prefer a chat interface with context about you and your work?
Higher dimensional Choptuik scaling in Painleve-Gullstrand coordinates
We investigate Choptuik scaling in the spherically symmetric collapse of a massless scalar field in higher dimensions using Painleve-Gullstrand coordinates. Our analysis gives reliable results for the critical exponent and period echoing up to seven dimensions and confirms the presence in higher dimensions of the cusps in the periodic scaling …