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Asymptotic behavior of null geodesics near future null infinity II: curvatures, photon surface and dynamically transversely trapping surface

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2022-04-04 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Bearing in mind our previous study on asymptotic behavior of null geodesics near future null infinity, we analyze the behavior of geometrical quantities such as a certain extrinsic curvature and Riemann tensor in the Bondi coordinates. In the sense of asymptotics, the condition for an rr-constant hypersurface to be a photon surface is shown to be controlled by a key quantity that determines the fate of photons initially emitted in angular directions. As a consequence, in four dimensions, such a non-expanding photon surface can be realized even near future null infinity in the presence of enormous energy flux for a short period of time. By contrast, in higher-dimensional cases, no such a photon surface can exist. This result also implies that the dynamically transversely trapping surface, which is proposed as an extension of a photon surface, can have an arbitrarily large radius in four dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.2110.10917,
  title  = {Asymptotic behavior of null geodesics near future null infinity II: curvatures, photon surface and dynamically transversely trapping surface},
  author = {Masaya Amo and Tetsuya Shiromizu and Keisuke Izumi and Hirotaka Yoshino and Yoshimune Tomikawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.10917},
  year   = {2022}
}

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17 pages, no figures, published version