Eur. Phys. J. C 69, 271-279 (2010)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1342-2

Gravitational collapse of spherically symmetric stars in noncommutative general relativity

¹ Lianyungang Teachers College, Jiangsu, 222006, China
² Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
³ Institute of Mathematics, School of Mathematical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China
⁴ School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia

ruibin.zhang@sydney.edu.au

Received: 14 April 2010
Revised: 30 April 2010
Published online: 27 May 2010

Abstract

Gravitational collapse of a class of spherically symmetric stars is investigated. We quantise the geometries describing the gravitational collapse by a deformation quantisation procedure. This gives rise to noncommutative spacetimes with gravitational collapse.