Identification of black hole horizons using scalar curvature invariants

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AA9804zbMATH Open1383.83049arXiv1710.08773OpenAlexW3100288295MaRDI QIDQ4609665FDOQ4609665

David McNutt, Alan Coley

Publication date: 23 March 2018

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

Abstract: We introduce the concept of a geometric horizon, which is a surface distinguished by the vanishing of certain curvature invariants which characterize its special algebraic character. We motivate its use for the detection of the event horizon of a stationary black hole by providing a set of appropriate scalar polynomial curvature invariants that vanish on this surface. We extend this result by proving that a non-expanding horizon, which generalizes a Killing horizon, coincides with the geometric horizon. Finally, we consider the imploding spherically symmetric metrics and show that the geometric horizon identifies a unique quasi-local surface corresponding to the unique spherically symmetric marginally trapped tube, implying that the spherically symmetric dynamical black holes admit a geometric horizon. Based on these results, we propose a suite of conjectures concerning the application of geometric horizons to more general dynamical black hole scenarios.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.08773

zbMATH Keywords

scalar curvature invariantsdynamical black holeshorizon detectiondynamical horizonsweakly isolated horizons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Black holes (83C57)

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