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Null hypersurfaces and trapping horizons

Differential Geometry 2019-08-26 v3

Abstract

The purpose of the present work is to study (marginally) trapped submanifolds lying in a null hypersurface. Let (M,g,N)\Bm(c)(M,g,N)\to\Bm(c) be a null hypersurface of a space-time with constant sectional curvature cc, endowed with a Screen Integrable and Conformal rigging NN. The (Marginally) Trapped Submanifolds we are interested with are particular leaves of the screen distribution according to the sign of their expansions. We prove that if cc is non-positive, then \Bm\Bm cannot contain a null non-expanding horizon. In the case cc is positive, we show that if \Bm\Bm satisfies Einstein's equation and dominant energy condition holds, then any null trapping horizon of \Bm\Bm is a null non-expanding horizon. More generally we prove that in a spacetime \Bm(c)\Bm(c) with constant sectional curvature cc, cross-sections of a marginally outer trapped tube are Riemann manifold with the same constant sectional curvature cc.

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@article{arxiv.1706.03861,
  title  = {Null hypersurfaces and trapping horizons},
  author = {Hans Fotsing T. and Ferdinand Ngakeu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.03861},
  year   = {2019}
}
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