Hayward Quasilocal Energy of Tori

Abstract

This paper is dedicated to the investigation of the positivity of the Hayward quasilocal energy of tori. Marginally trapped tori have nonnegative Hayward energy. We consider a scenario of a spherically symmetric constant density star matched to an exterior Schwarzschild solution. We show that any generic tori within the star, distorted or not, trapped or not, have strictly positive Hayward energy. Surprisingly we find analytic examples of `thin' tori with negative Hayward energy in the outer neighborhood of the Schwarzschild horizon. These tori are swept out by rotating the standard round circles in the static coordinates but they are distorted in the isotropic coordinates. Numerical results also indicate that there exist horizontally dragged tori with strictly negative Hayward energy in the region between the boundary of the star and the Schwarzschild horizon.