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On the boundary of the region containing trapped surfaces

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-05-13 v1

Abstract

The boundary of the region in spacetime containing future-trapped closed surfaces is considered. In asymptotically flat spacetimes, this boundary does not need to be the event horizon nor a dynamical/trapping horizon. Some properties of this boundary and its localization are analyzed, and illustrated with examples. In particular, fully explicit future-trapped compact surfaces penetrating into flat portions of a Vaidya spacetime are presented.

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@article{arxiv.0812.2767,
  title  = {On the boundary of the region containing trapped surfaces},
  author = {José M. M. Senovilla},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.2767},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

16 pages, 1 Table, 3 Figures. Invited talk to appear in the proceedings of the Spanish Relativity Meeting ERE-08, Salamanca, "Physics and Mathematics of Gravitation". Largely based on a collaboration with I. Bengtsson