The causal structure of two-dimensional spacetimes

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/9/7/010zbMATH Open0774.53040arXivhep-th/9203050OpenAlexW3098986324MaRDI QIDQ4039474FDOQ4039474

Authors: J. Daniel Christensen, Robert B. Mann 

Publication date: 30 August 1993

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the causal structure of $(1+1)$-dimensional spacetimes. For two sets of field equations we show that at least locally any spacetime is a solution for an appropriate choice of the matter fields. For the theories under consideration we investigate how smoothness of their black hole solutions affects time orientation. We show that if an analog to Hawking's area theorem holds in two spacetime dimensions, it must actually state that the size of a black hole never {em increases}, contrary to what happens in four dimensions. Finally, we discuss the applicability of the Penrose and Hawking singularity theorems to two spacetime dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9203050

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zbMATH Keywords

causal structuresingularity theoremsblack hole solutionsHawking's area theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

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