Formation of dynamically transversely trapping surfaces and the stretched hoop conjecture [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09893


A dynamically transversely trapping surface (DTTS) is a newly born concept of an extension of a photon sphere that appropriately represents a strong gravity region and has close analogy with a trapped surface. We study formation of a marginally DTTS in time-symmetric, conformally flat initial data with two black holes, with a spindle-shaped source, and with a ring-shaped source, and clarify that $\mathcal{C}\lesssim 6\pi GM$ well describes the condition for the DTTS formation, where $\mathcal{C}$ is the circumference and $M$ is the mass of the system. This indicates that an understanding analogous to the hoop conjecture for the horizon formation is possible. Exploring the ring system further, we find configurations where a marginally DTTS with the torus topology forms inside a marginally DTTS with the spherical topology, without being hidden by an apparent horizon. There also exist configurations where a marginally trapped surface with the torus topology forms inside a marginally trapped surface with the spherical topology, showing a further similarity between DTTSs and trapped surfaces.

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H. Yoshino, K. Izumi, T. Shiromizu, et. al.
Mon, 25 Nov 19
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Comments: 24 pages, 15 figures