GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE OF SPHERICAL STRING FLUIDS

Abstract

We discuss the spherical collapse of a two fluid system: a string fluid and a null fluid described by a generalized Vaidya metric. This led us to explicitly describe the effect of a string fluid on the established picture of a null fluid collapse (Vaidya collapse). It is found that there is a shrinkage of the initial data space for naked singularities of Vaidya collapse upon taking into account a string fluid. The implications of the results in the context of the cosmic censorship conjecture are discussed.