Work

Local Existence of Dynamical and Trapping Horizons

Year: 2005

Type: article

Abstract: Given a spacelike foliation of a spacetime and a marginally outer trapped surface S on some initial leaf, we prove that under a suitable stability condition S is contained in "horizon" i.e., a smooth 3-surface foliated by marginally outer trapped slices which lie in the leaves of the given foliation. We also show that under rather weak energy conditions this horizon must be either achronal or spacelike everywhere. Furthermore, we discuss the relation between "bounding" and "stability" properties of marginally outer trapped surfaces.

Source: Physical Review Letters

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.95.111102

Authors: Lars Andersson, Marc Mars, Walter Simon

Institutions: Max Planck Society, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, University of Miami, Universidad de Salamanca

Language: English

Topic: Black Holes and Theoretical Physics

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Science Foundation, Austrian Science Fund

Awards: Global existence problems for the Einstein equations, Generalized Penrose inequalities