Marginally outer trapped surfaces in de Sitter space by low-dimensional geometries (Q492898)

A marginally outer trapped surface in a four-dimensional spacetime \((N,<,>)\) is a space-like immersion \(\gamma :M\rightarrow N\) of an oriented surface \(M\) whose mean curvature vector field is proportional to one of the two null sections of its normal bundle. The authors study marginally outer trapped surfaces and give the description of such surfaces based on Möbius geometry. They consider three cases according to whether both, one, or none of the fundamental forms in the normal null directions vanish. The authors also study such spaces with non-zero parallel mean curvature vector. It is proved that any such surface is generically the central sphere congruence of a surface in Möbius space which is locally equivalent to a non-zero constant mean curvature surface in some space form subgeometry.