Comment on "Absence of trapped surfaces and singularities in cylindrical collapse"

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2003-08-30

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0309003v2

Phys.Rev.D72:108501,2005

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

latex, 2 figures, the last version to appear in Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.72.108501

Recently, the gravitational collapse of an infinite cylindrical thin shell of matter in an otherwise empty spacetime with two hypersurface orthogonal Killing vectors was studied by Gon\c{c}alves [Phys. Rev. {\bf D65}, 084045 (2002).]. By using three "alternative" criteria for trapped surfaces, the author claimed to have shown that {\em they can never form either outside or on the shell, regardingless of the matter content for the shell, except at asymptotical future null infinite}. Following Penrose's original idea, we first define trapped surfaces in cylindrical spacetimes in terms of the expansions of null directions orthogonal to the surfaces, and then show that the first criterion used by Gon\c{c}alves is incorrect. We also show that his analysis of non-existence of trapped surfaces in vacuum is incomplete. To confirm our claim, we present an example that is a solution to the vacuum Einstein field equations and satisfies all the regular conditions imposed by Gon\c{c}alves. After extending the solution to the whole spacetime, we show explicitly that trapped surfaces exist in the extended region.

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