Time flat surfaces and the monotonicity of the spacetime Hawking mass

DOI10.1007/S00220-014-2162-2MaRDI QIDQ2260715zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hubert L. Bray, Jeffrey L. Jauregui

Publication date 11 March 2015

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.8638

zbMATH Keywords

black holeHawking massmean curvature flowPenrose inequalityquasi-local mass

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: We identify a condition on spacelike 2-surfaces in a spacetime that is relevant to understanding the concept of mass in general relativity. We prove a formula for the variation of the spacetime Hawking mass under a uniformly area expanding flow and show that it is nonnegative for these so-called "time flat surfaces." Such flows generalize inverse mean curvature flow, which was used by Huisken and Ilmanen to prove the Riemannian Penrose inequality for one black hole. A flow of time flat surfaces may have connections to the problem in general relativity of bounding the mass of a spacetime from below by the quasi-local mass of a spacelike 2-surface contained therein.

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