{
  "id": "gr-qc/9603051",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "1996-03-27T19:34:21.000Z",
  "updated": "1996-03-27T19:34:21.000Z",
  "title": "Critical Behaviour in Gravitational Collapse of a Yang-Mills Field",
  "authors": [
    "Matthew W. Choptuik",
    "Tadeusz Chmaj",
    "Piotr Bizon"
  ],
  "comment": "5 pages, REVTeX 3.0, 5 figures included",
  "journal": "Phys.Rev.Lett. 77 (1996) 424-427",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.424",
  "categories": [
    "gr-qc",
    "hep-th"
  ],
  "abstract": "We present results from a numerical study of spherically-symmetric collapse of a self-gravitating, SU(2) gauge field. Two distinct critical solutions are observed at the threshold of black hole formation. In one case the critical solution is discretely self-similar and black holes of arbitrarily small mass can form. However, in the other instance the critical solution is the n=1 static Bartnik-Mckinnon sphaleron, and black hole formation turns on at finite mass. The transition between these two scenarios is characterized by the superposition of both types of critical behaviour.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "1996-03-27T19:34:21.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "critical behaviour",
      "gravitational collapse",
      "yang-mills field",
      "black hole formation turns",
      "static bartnik-mckinnon sphaleron"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett."
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "RevTeX",
      "pages": 5,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 417159
    }
  }
}