In this article we are interested in investigating the temporal evolution, along the
collapse process, of certain physical quantities, starting from an initial static configuration
to the formation of a black hole, through the introduction of a temporal dependence in
the metric. We consider a spherically symmetrical distribution of a fluid with anisotropy
in pressures, with heat flux and viscosities, governed by a non-local equation of state,
originally proposed by H`ernandez and N´u˜nez [12].
Our article is organized as follows. In section 2, we present a description of the
geometry of spacetime and the energy-momentum tensor. In section 3, we present a spe-
cial metric, time dependent, to study the evolution of an initial static configuration, for
which the field equations lead to a non-local equation of state for fluids with anisotropic
pressures. Then, in section 4, we investigate the evolution from collapse to black hole for-
mation from a solution given by a density profile proposed by Wyman [20] that is written
in a similar way to the one presented in Hern´andez and N´u˜nez [12]. We also corrected
some results obtained from the latter, exploring the graphic behavior of quantities such
as mass-energy enclosed in the surface of the distribution, luminosity for an observer at
infinity, effective surface temperature, adiabatic index effective, heat flux and scalar ex-
pansion. In section 5, the energy conditions for the dynamic case are analyzed. Finally,
in section 7 we present our final remarks. We include an Appendix presenting the energy
conditions considered here.
II. EINSTEIN’S FIELD EQUATION
In order to study the gravitational collapse problem, we need to separate spacetime into
three regions: the first consists of the interior region, that is, the spherically symmetric
distribution of matter. The second, an outer region which is fullfiled by null radiation,
emitted by the matter distribution. Finally, the third of them refers to a Σ junction
hypersurface that separates these last two.
Let gij be the metric intrinsic to the hypersurface Σ, which takes into account the
description in comoving coordinates of the inner spacetime, that is
ds2
Σ=gijdξidξj=−dτ2+R2(τ)dΩ2,(1)
where dΩ2=dθ2+sen2θdφ2is the angular element and τrepresents the proper time, with
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