Role of Initial Data in Higher Dimensional Quasi-Spherical Gravitational Collapse

X iv :g rqc /0 30 80 37 v1 1 2 A ug 2 00 3 Role of Initial Data in Higher Dimensional Quasi-Spherical Gravitational Collapse Ujjal Debnath and Subenoy Chakraborty Department of Mathematics, Jadavpur University, Calcutta-32, India. (Dated: February 7, 2008) We study the gravitational collapse in (n+2)-D quasi-spherical Szekeres space-time (which possess no killing vectors) with dust as the matter distribution. Instead of choosing the radial coordinate ‘r’ as the initial value for the scale factor R, we consider a power function of r as the initial scale for the radius R. We examine the influence of initial data on the formation of singularity in gravitational collapse.