Marginally trapped surfaces in null normal foliation spacetimes: A one step generalization of LRS II spacetimes

In this paper, we study geometrical properties of marginally trapped surfaces in gravitational collapse, using a semi-tetrad covariant formalism, that provides a set of geometrical and matter variables. We first define a generalization (in a sense to be specified in the introduction) of LRS II spacetime — which we call NNF spacetimes — and show that the marginally trapped surfaces in NNF spacetimes (and the 3-surfaces they foliate) are topologically equivalently those of LRS II spacetimes. We then study the evolution of MTTs (3-surfaces foliated by marginally trapped surfaces), extending earlier work on LRS II spacetimes to NNF spacetimes, and in general any 4-dimensional spacetime. In addition, we perform a stability analysis for the marginally trapped surfaces in this formalism, using simple spacetimes as examples to demonstrate the applicability of our approach.

Geometric Study of Marginally Trapped Surfaces in Space Forms and Robertson-Walker Spacetimes—An Overview

A marginally trapped surface in a spacetime is a Riemannian surface whose mean curvature vector is lightlike at every point. In this paper we give an up-to-date overview of the differential geometric study of these surfaces in Minkowski, de Sitter, anti-de Sitter and Robertson-Walker spacetimes. We give the general local descriptions proven by Anciaux and his coworkers as well as the known classifications of marginally trapped surfaces satisfying one of the following additional geometric conditions: having positive relative nullity, having parallel mean curvature vector field, having finite type Gauss map, being invariant under a one-parameter group of ambient isometries, being isotropic, being pseudo-umbilical. Finally, we provide examples of constant Gaussian curvature marginally trapped surfaces and state some open questions.

The marginally trapped surfaces in spheroidal spacetimes

We study the location of marginally trapped surfaces in spacetimes resulting from an axial deformation of static isotropic systems, and show that the Misner–Sharp mass evaluated on the corresponding undeformed spherically symmetric space provides the correct gravitational radius to locate the spheroidal horizon.

On the Trapped Surface Characterization of Black Hole Region in Vaidya Spacetime

Characterizing black holes by means of classical event horizon is a global concept because it depends on future null infinity. This means, to find black hole region and event horizon requires the notion of the entire spacetime which is a teleological concept. With this as a motivation, we use local approach as a complementary means of characterizing black holes. In this paper we apply Gauss divergence and covariant divergence theorems to compute the fluxes and the divergences of the appropriate null vectors in Vaidya spacetime and thus explicitly determine the existence of trapped and marginally trapped surfaces in its black hole region.