Critical Behavior of Black Hole Formation in a Scalar Wave Collapse

We present a self-similar model of spherically symmetric collapse of a massless scalar field with a parameter $p$. The black hole formation is explicitly shown to occur only in the strong-field implosion of $p >1$. The field evolution in the critical limit $p \rightarrow 1$ is compared with numerical results found by Choptuik.

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