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Phys. Rev. D 75, 064007 (2007) [15 pages]

Outer trapped surfaces in Vaidya spacetimes

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Ishai Ben-Dov*
Enrico Fermi Institute and Department of Physics, University of Chicago, 5640 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637-1433, USA

Received 29 November 2006; published 8 March 2007

It is proven that in Vaidya spacetimes of bounded total mass, the outer boundary, in spacetime, of the region containing outer trapped surfaces, is the event horizon. Further, it is shown that the region containing trapped surfaces in these spacetimes does not always extend to the event horizon.

© 2007 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.75.064007
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.75.064007
PACS:
04.70.Bw

*Electronic mail: ibd@uchicago.edu