Scalar field thin shell collapse in the Brane-world geometry

Abstract

In this paper, we studied the dynamics of thin shell in the perfect fluid composed of scalar field. To formulate the equation of motion of the shell, we used the Israel thin-shell formalism for the Brane-world black hole in the two surrounding vacuum regions (interior and exterior). In this study, we considered the potential function as a quadratic function of scalar field. The resulting dynamical equations have been analyzed numerically for both the cases, massless and massive scalar field through the effective potential and radius of the shell by considering different settings of the parameters involved. We found that there are three possibilities in this geometry, thin shell in the scalar field can expand, collapse or attain equilibrium for a while, however, in most of the cases for large value of radius, thin shell collapses to zero size. The effects of the parameters [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] (involved due to the Brane-world geometry) on the expansion and collapsing rates have been analyzed and the obtained results compared with the Schwarzschild case ([Formula: see text], [Formula: see text]).