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Boost invariant marginally trapped surfaces in Minkowski 4-space

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

The extremal and partly marginally trapped surfaces in Minkowski 4-space, which are invariant under the group of boost isometries, are classified. Moreover, it is shown that there do not exist extremal surfaces of this kind with constant Gaussian curvature. A procedure is given in order to construct a partly marginally trapped surface by gluing two marginally trapped surfaces which are invariant under the group of boost isometries. As an application, a proper star-surface is constructed.

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@article{arxiv.0707.1972,
  title  = {Boost invariant marginally trapped surfaces in Minkowski 4-space},
  author = {Stefan Haesen and Miguel Ortega},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.1972},
  year   = {2008}
}

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