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We revisit the notion of massive particle hypersurfaces and place it within a unified framework alongside photon hypersurfaces in stationary spacetimes. More precisely, for Killing-invariant timelike hypersurfaces $T=\mathbb{R}\times S_0$,…

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In this paper, we combine and generalize to higher dimensions the approaches to proving the uniqueness of connected (3+1)-dimensional static vacuum asymptotically flat black hole spacetimes by M\"uller zum Hagen--Robinson--Seifert and by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Carla Cederbaum , Albachiara Cogo , Benedito Leandro , João Paulo dos Santos

In this note we identify photon surfaces and anti-photon surfaces in some physically interesting spacetimes, which are not spherically symmetric. All of our examples solve physically reasonable field equations, including for some cases the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-26 G. W. Gibbons , C. M. Warnick

Photon region (PR) in the strong gravitational field is defined as a compact region where photons can travel endlessly without going to infinity or disappearing at the event horizon. In Schwarzschild metric PR degenerates to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-15 K. V. Kobialko , D. V. Gal'tsov

We discuss the uniqueness of asymptotically flat and static spacetimes in the $n$-dimensional Einstein-conformal scalar system. This theory potentially has a singular point in the field equations where the effective Newton constant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-24 Keisuke Izumi , Yoshimune Tomikawa , Tetsuya Shiromizu

The concept of a marginally trapped surface is important in the theory of general relativity. In the Schwarzschild black hole spacetime, its event horizon is foliated by marginally trapped surfaces. In a more general black hole spacetime,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Pengyu Le

Sonic point/photon sphere (SP/PS) correspondence is a theoretical phenomenon which appears in fluid dynamics on curved spacetime and its existence has been recently proved in quite wide situations as theorems. The theorems state that a…

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In case of a spherically symmetric non-linear scalar field (SF) in flat space, besides singularity at the center, spherical singularities can occur for non-zero values of radial variable $r>0$. We show that in the General Relativity the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-01 V. I. Zhdanov , O. S. Stashko

We present different proofs of the uniqueness of 4-dimensional static vacuum asymptotically flat spacetimes containing a connected equipotential photon surface or in particular a connected photon sphere. We do not assume that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-06 Carla Cederbaum , Albachiara Cogo , Axel Fehrenbach

Photon spheres have attracted considerable interest in the studies of black holes and other astrophysical objects. For different categories of spacetimes (or gravitational sources), the existence of photon spheres and their distributions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-05 Chen-Kai Qiao , Ping Su , Yang Huang

In this work, inspired by the definition of the photon surface given by Claudel, Virbhadra, and Ellis, we give an alternative quasi-local definition to study the circular orbits of single-pole particles. This definition does not only apply…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-30 Yong Song , Yiting Cen , Leilei Tang , Jiabao Hu , Kai Diao , Xiaofeng Zhao , Shunping Shi

Based on the geometry of the codimension-2 surface in a general spherically symmetric spacetime, we give a quasi-local definition of a photon sphere as well as a photon surface. This new definition is the generalization of the one by…

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We study the backwards-in-time stability of the Schwarzschild singularity from a dynamical PDE point of view. More precisely, considering a spacelike hypersurface $\Sigma_0$ in the interior of the black hole region, tangent to the singular…

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Metasurfaces are a key photonic platform to manipulate classical light using sub-wavelength structures with designer optical response. Static metasurfaces have recently entered the realm of quantum photonics, showing their ability to tailor…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-28 Wilton J. M. Kort-Kamp , Abul K. Azad , Diego A. R. Dalvit

In our paper we pay attention to the problem of uniqueness (classification) of higher-dimensional electro-magnetic static, asymptotically flat, non-extremal solutions of multi-dimensional Einstein (n-2)-form gauge field gravity theory,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-28 Marek Rogatko

We propose an alternative description of the Schwarzschild black hole based on the requirement that the solution be static not only outside the horizon but also inside it. As a consequence of this assumption, we are led to a change of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-13 L. Herrera , L. Witten

Bearing in mind our previous study on asymptotic behavior of null geodesics near future null infinity, we analyze the behavior of geometrical quantities such as a certain extrinsic curvature and Riemann tensor in the Bondi coordinates. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-04 Masaya Amo , Tetsuya Shiromizu , Keisuke Izumi , Hirotaka Yoshino , Yoshimune Tomikawa

Uniqueness of static, asymptotically flat, non-extremal {\it photon sphere} in Einstein-Maxwell spacetime with electric and magnetic charges has been proved. Using conformal positive energy theorem, as well as, the positive mass theorem and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-05 Marek Rogatko

In this work, we establish the existence conditions and a universal upper bound on the radius of stable photon spheres (SPS) outside the event horizons of static, spherically symmetric, asymptotically flat black holes surrounded by matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-16 Yong Song , Jiaqi Fu , Yiting Cen

The problem of existence of spacelike hypersurfaces with constant mean curvature in asymptotically flat spacetimes is considered for a class of asymptotically Schwarzschild spacetimes satisfying an interior condition. Using a barrier…

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