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Trapped and marginally trapped surfaces in Weyl-distorted Schwarzschild solutions

arXiv:1102.0999 · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/28/12/125018

Abstract

To better understand the allowed range of black hole geometries, we study Weyl-distorted Schwarzschild solutions. They always contain trapped surfaces, a singularity and an isolated horizon and so should be understood to be (geometric) black holes. However we show that for large distortions the isolated horizon is neither a future outer trapping horizon (FOTH) nor even a marginally trapped surface: slices of the horizon cannot be infinitesimally deformed into (outer) trapped surfaces. We consider the implications of this result for popular quasilocal definitions of black holes.

The results are unchanged but this version supersedes that published in CQG. The major change is a rewriting of Section 3.1 to improve clarity and correct an error in the general expression for V(r,θ). Several minor errors are also fixed - most significantly an incorrect statement made in the introduction about the extent of the outer prison in Vaidya. 17 pages, 2 figures

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