Gravitational Collapse and Cosmic Censorship
Abstract
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We review the status of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture, which asserts, in essence, that all singularities of gravitational collapse are hidden within black holes. Although little progress has been made toward a general proof (or disproof) of this conjecture, there has been some notable recent progress in the study of some examples and special cases related to the conjecture. These results support the view that naked singularities cannot arise generically.
21 pages, plain latex, no figures. Corresponds closely to talk given at the April, 1997 APS meeting in Washington, D.C. A few references added
21 pages, plain latex, no figures. Corresponds closely to talk given at the April, 1997 APS meeting in Washington, D.C. A few references added