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Dynamical horizon segments and spacetime isometries

Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Given a space-time $(\mathscr{M}, g_{ab})$ admitting a dynamical horizon segment (DHS) $\mathscr{H}$, we show that there are stringent constraints on the Killing fields $ξ^a$ that $g_{ab}$ can admit in a neighborhood of $\mathscr{H}$: Generically, $ξ^a$ can only be a rotational Killing field which, furthermore, leaves each marginally trapped 2-sphere cross-section $\mathcal{S}$ of $\mathscr{H}$ invariant. Finally, if $ξ^a$ happens to be hypersurface orthogonal near $\mathscr{H}$, then, not only the angular momentum but also all spin multipoles vanish on every $\mathcal{S}$; the entire spin structure of these DHSs is indistinguishable from that of spherically symmetric DHSs!
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4414384813
FWCI: 0.473
Cites: 46
Cited by: 1
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