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Exact Solutions for the Intrinsic Geometry of Black Hole Coalescence

arXiv:gr-qc/9809034 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.60.044005

Abstract

We describe the null geometry of a multiple black hole event horizon in terms of a conformal rescaling of a flat space null hypersurface. For the prolate spheroidal case, we show that the method reproduces the pair-of-pants shaped horizon found in the numerical simulation of the head-on-collision of black holes. For the oblate case, it reproduces the initially toroidal event horizon found in the numerical simulation of collapse of a rotating cluster. The analytic nature of the approach makes further conclusions possible, such as a bearing on the hoop conjecture. From a time reversed point of view, the approach yields a description of the past event horizon of a fissioning white hole, which can be used as null data for the characteristic evolution of the exterior space-time.

21 pages, 6 figures, revtex, to appear in Phys. Rev. D

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