The Hawking energy on photon surfaces
arXiv:2001.08491 · doi:10.1007/s10714-020-02703-0
Abstract
The Hawking energy has a monotonicity property under the inverse mean curvature flow on totally umbilic hypersurfaces with constant scalar curvature in Einstein spaces. It grows if the hypersurface is spacelike, and decreases if it is timelike. Timelike examples include Minkowski and de Sitter hyperboloids, and photon surfaces in Schwarzschild.
9 pages; improved by two referees