4 papers
Black hole evolutions: Lessons from bifurcation theory
Ivan Booth, Graham Cox, Chiamaka Mary Okpala
We explore the role of the stability operator in regulating the evolution of marginally outer trapped surfaces (MOTSs). In 2005, Andersson, Mars and Simon showed that if the stabil…
The calculus of Duistermaat's triple index
Gregory Berkolaiko, Graham Cox, Yuri Latushkin +1
In this paper we develop a systematic calculus for the Duistermaat index, a symplectic invariant defined for triples of Lagrangian subspaces. Introduced nearly half a century ago,…
The Duistermaat index and eigenvalue interlacing for self-adjoint extensions of a symmetric operator
Gregory Berkolaiko, Graham Cox, Yuri Latushkin +1
Eigenvalue interlacing is a useful tool in linear algebra and spectral analysis. In its simplest form, the interlacing inequality states that a rank-one positive perturbation shift…
Symmetry and instability of marginally outer trapped surfaces
Ivan Booth, Graham Cox, Juan Margalef-Bentabol
We consider an initial data set having a continuous symmetry and a marginally outer trapped surface (MOTS) that is not preserved by this symmetry. We show that such a MOTS is unsta…