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This paper contains a new proof of the formation of trapped spheres, in vacuum spacetimes, by the focusing of gravitational waves, from generic data. The first such result was obtained by Christodoulou (Zurich: Eur Math Soc, 2009). We exploit the same physical mechanism, but give a logically independent construction of these spacetimes.
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Communicated by M. Aizenman and P.T. Chruściel
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Reiterer, M., Trubowitz, E. Strongly Focused Gravitational Waves. Commun. Math. Phys. 307, 275–313 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-011-1314-x
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