Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2009-10-15
Class.Quant.Grav.27:065001,2010
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
15 pages, 1 figure
Scientific paper
10.1088/0264-9381/27/6/065001
We prove some related results concerning blow-up solutions for the Jang equation. First: it has been shown that, given an outermost marginally outer trapped surface (MOTS) \Sigma, there exists a solution to Jang's equation which blows up at \Sigma. Here we show that in addition, large classes of spherically symmetric initial data have solutions to the Jang equation which blow up at non-outermost MOTSs, i.e. MOTSs which lie strictly inside of other MOTS, and even inside of strictly outer trapped surfaces. Unlike for outermost MOTSs, however, we show that there do not \emph{always} exist blow-up solutions for inner MOTSs, even in spherical symmetry. Secondly, an unpublished result of R. Schoen, whose proof we include here, says that in the time-symmetric case, any MOTS corresponding to a blow-up solution for Jang's equation must be outer-area-minimizing, i.e. cannot be contained in a surface of strictly smaller area. The statement is false without the assumption of time-symmetry, however; we construct an explicit spherically symmetric data set providing a counterexample for the general case.
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