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``Nowhere'' differentiable horizons

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

It is folklore knowledge amongst general relativists that horizons are well behaved, continuously differentiable hypersurfaces except perhaps on a negligible subset one needs not to bother with. We show that this is not the case, by constructing a Cauchy horizon, as well as a black hole event horizon, which contain no open subset on which they are differentiable.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9611032,
  title  = {``Nowhere'' differentiable horizons},
  author = {P. T. Chrusciel and G. J. Galloway},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9611032},
  year   = {2009}
}

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28 pages, Latex with pstricks and graphicx, 4 ps figures