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Piotr Bizoń

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Codimension-two critical behavior in vacuum gravitational collapse.

We consider the critical behavior at the threshold of black-hole formation for the five-dimensional vacuum Einstein equations satisfying the cohomogeneity-two triaxial Bianchi type-IX ansatz. Exploiting a discrete symmetry present in this model we predict the existence of a codimension-two attractor. This prediction is confirmed numerically and the codimension-two attractor is identified as a discretely self-similar solution with two unstable modes.

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Nonlinear perturbations of the Kaluza-Klein monopole.

We consider the nonlinear stability of the Kaluza-Klein monopole viewed as the static solution of the five-dimensional vacuum Einstein equations. Using both numerical and analytical methods, we give evidence that the Kaluza-Klein monopole is asymptotically stable within the cohomogeneity-two biaxial Bianchi type-IX ansatz recently introduced by Bizoń, Chmaj, and Schmidt. We also show that for sufficiently large perturbations the Kaluza-Klein monopole loses stability and collapses to a Kaluza-Klein black hole. The relevance of our results for the stability of Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield states in M or string theory is briefly discussed.

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Critical behavior in vacuum gravitational collapse in 4 + 1 dimensions.

We show that the (4 + 1)-dimensional vacuum Einstein equations admit gravitational waves with radial symmetry. The dynamical degrees of freedom correspond to deformations of the three-sphere orthogonal to the (t,r) plane. Gravitational collapse of such waves is studied numerically and shown to exhibit discretely self-similar type II critical behavior at the threshold of black hole formation.

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