@article{43ebae7e4ea94241987af19d815e9fa9,
title = "Hamiltonian treatment of collapsing thin shells in Lanczos-Lovelock theories",
abstract = "The Hamiltonian treatment for the collapse of thin shells for a family of Lanczos-Lovelock theories is studied. This formalism allows us to carry out a concise analysis of these theories. It is found that the black holes solution can be created by collapsing a thin shell. Naked singularities cannot be formed by this mechanism. Among the different Lanczos-Lovelock theories, the Chern-Simons theory corresponds to an exceptional case, because naked singularities can emerge from the collapse of a thin shell. This kind of theory does not possess a gravitational self-interaction analogous to the Newtonian case.",
author = "Juan Cris{\'o}stomo and {Del Campo}, Sergio and Joel Saavedra",
note = "Funding Information: We are grateful to S. Lepe, R. Olea, R. Troncoso, C. Teitelboim, and J. Zanelli for many enlightening discussions. S. d. C. was supported by COMISION NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS Y TECNOLOGIA through FONDECYT Grant No. 1030469, No. 1010485, and No. 1040624. Also, this paper was partially supported by PUCV Grant No. 123.764/2004. J. S. was supported by COMISION NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS Y TECNOLOGIA through FONDECYT Postdoctoral Grant No. 3030025. The authors wish to thank CECS for its kind hospitality.",
year = "2004",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.70.064034",
language = "English",
volume = "70",
pages = "064034--1--064034--8",
journal = "Physical Review D",
issn = "0556-2821",
publisher = "American Institute of Physics",
number = "6",
}