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Spherically symmetric inhomogeneous dust collapse has been studied in higher dimensional space-time and the appearance of a naked singularity has been analyzed both for the non-marginal and the marginally bound cases. It has been shown that a naked singularity is possible for any arbitrary dimension in the non-marginally bound case. For the marginally bound case we have examined the radial null geodesics from the singularity and found that a naked singularity is possible up to five dimensions.
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Debnath, U., Chakraborty, S. Gravitational Collapse in Higher Dimensional Space-Time. General Relativity and Gravitation 36, 1243–1253 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:GERG.0000022385.32666.4d
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