Trapped surfaces and symmetries
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-11-10 v3
Abstract
We prove that strictly stationary spacetimes cannot contain closed trapped nor marginally trapped surfaces. The result is purely geometric and holds in arbitrary dimension. Other results concerning the interplay between (generalized) symmetries and trapped submanifolds are also presented.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0309055,
title = {Trapped surfaces and symmetries},
author = {Marc Mars and José M. M. Senovilla},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0309055},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
9 pages, no figures. Final corrected version to appear in Class. Quantum Grav