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Spherically Symmetric Event Horizons and Trapped Surfaces Developing from Innociuous Data

Ulrich Alfes, Henning Müller zum Hagen

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9408018

Abstract

In this paper we show the existence of a large class of spherically symmetric data d (on a spacelike hypersurface S), from which a perfect fluid spacetime (surrounded by vacuum) develops. This spacetime contains an event horizon (with trapped surfaces behind it). The data d are regular and innociuous, i.e. the data--surface S does not contain any point of the horizon or of the trapped surface area. We give auxiliary data on an auxiliary hypersurface H and also on the star boundary; then we solve Einstein's equations for perfect fluid in the future and past of H. Our solution induces the above mentioned data d on some chosen spacelike hypersurface S in the past of H. By construction H turns out to be the matter part of the horizon, once we attach a vacuum to our matter spacetime. Obviously, from these data d on S it develops (into the future) the event horizon H. We solve the constraint equations for the auxiliary data posed on the null--surface H. This reduces the choice of these data to the choice of the density ρ and R:=[curvature]-1/2. Our data fulfil positivity of ρ, 2m/R=1 (at the star boundary) and other properties. This is archieved by an algorithm, which for given ρ yields R (from an input parameter function h ∈ C1( [0,1],]0,-∞ [)).

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