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Black Hole Formation from a Complete Regular Past

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An open problem in general relativity has been to construct an asymptotically flat solution to a reasonable Einstein-matter system containing a black hole and yet causally geodesically complete to the past, containing no white holes. We construct such a solution in this paper–in fact a family of such solutions, stable in a suitable sense–where matter is described by a self-gravitating scalar field.

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Dafermos, M. Black Hole Formation from a Complete Regular Past. Commun. Math. Phys. 289, 579–596 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-009-0775-7

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