Abstract
A detailed study of higher-dimensional quasi-spherical gravitational collapse with radial and tangential stresses has been done and the role of initial data, anisotropy and inhomogeneity has been investigated in determining the end state of collapse. By linear scaling the initial data set and the area radius, it is found that the dynamics of quasi-spherical collapse remains invariant. In other words, the linear transformation identifies an equivalence class of data sets for which physical parameters like density, pressures (radial and tangential), shear remain invariant and the final state of collapse is identical (black hole or naked singularity). Finally, the role of anisotropy and inhomogeneity has been studied by proving some propositions.
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