Theoretical physics / Elméleti fizika

Prof. Ingemar Bengtsson (University of Stockholm) :Trapped surfaces in simple collapse situations

Europe/Budapest
Tanacsterem

Tanacsterem

Description
Given an evolving black hole there is a region of spacetime such that a trapped surface passes through every point in the region. What is the boundary of this region? I will discuss this question for spherically symmetric spacetimes; it seems to be easy to answer for outer trapped surfaces, but it is non-trivial for trapped surfaces with both null expansions negative. If there is time I might also mention some results for a 2+1 dimensional toy model, where one can do without any symmetry assumptions.