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Horizons of some asymptotically stationary spacetimes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-11-20 v1 Differential Geometry Dynamical Systems

Abstract

On a class of dynamical spacetimes which are asymptotic as tt\to\infty to a stationary spacetime containing a horizon H0\mathcal{H}_0, we show the existence of a unique null hypersurface H\mathcal{H} which is asymptotic to H0\mathcal{H}_0. This is a special case of a general unstable manifold theorem for perturbations of flows which translate in time and have a normal sink at an invariant manifold in space. Examples of horizons H0\mathcal{H}_0 to which our result applies include event horizons of subextremal Kerr and Kerr-Newman black holes as well as event and cosmological horizons of subextremal Kerr-Newman-de Sitter black holes. In the Kerr(-Newman) case, we show that H\mathcal{H} is equal to the boundary of the black hole region of the dynamical spacetime.

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@article{arxiv.2411.12568,
  title  = {Horizons of some asymptotically stationary spacetimes},
  author = {Peter Hintz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.12568},
  year   = {2024}
}

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