Curvature invariants in a binary black hole merger

DOI10.1007/S10714-022-02944-1MaRDI QIDQ2159334zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jeremy M. Peters, Erik Schnetter, Alan Coley

Publication date 29 July 2022

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.09615

zbMATH Keywords

apparent horizonbinary black hole mergerblack hole horizonboost weight classificationdifferential geometrydifferential scalar polynomial invariantevent horizonextended Cartan invariantgeometric horizongeometric horizon conjecturelevel setsmarginally outer trapped surfacenumerical relativityPetrov classificationscalar polynomial invariantWeyl tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polynomials and rational functions of several complex variables (32A08) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Two-body problems (70F05) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: We study curvature invariants in a binary black hole merger. It has been conjectured that one could define a quasi-local and foliation independent black hole horizon by finding the level--$0$ set of a suitable curvature invariant of the Riemann tensor. The conjecture is the geometric horizon conjecture and the associated horizon is the geometric horizon. We study this conjecture by tracing the level--$0$ set of the complex scalar polynomial invariant, $mathcalD$, through a quasi-circular binary black hole merger. We approximate these level--$0$ sets of $mathcalD$ with level--$varepsilon$ sets of $|mathcalD|$ for small $varepsilon$. We locate the local minima of $|mathcalD|$ and find that the positions of these local minima correspond closely to the level--$varepsilon$ sets of $|mathcalD|$ and we also compare with the level--$0$ sets of $extRe(mathcalD)$. The analysis provides evidence that the level--$varepsilon$ sets track a unique geometric horizon. By studying the behaviour of the zero sets of $extRe(mathcalD)$ and $extIm(mathcalD)$ and also by studying the MOTSs and apparent horizons of the initial black holes, we observe that the level--$varepsilon$ set that best approximates the geometric horizon is given by $varepsilon=10^{-3}$.

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