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The Riemannian Penrose inequality and a virtual gravitational collapse

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2010-02-25 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory Differential Geometry

Abstract

We reinterpret the proof of the Riemannian Penrose inequality by H. Bray. The modified argument turns out to have a nice feature so that the flow of Riemannian metrics appearing Bray's proof gives a Lorentzian metric of a spacetime. We also discuss a possible extension of our approach to charged black holes.

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@article{arxiv.0906.2042,
  title  = {The Riemannian Penrose inequality and a virtual gravitational collapse},
  author = {Seiju Ohashi and Tetsuya Shiromizu and Sumio Yamada},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.2042},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

4pages, minor changes, accepted for publication in Physical Review D