The hoop conjecture and the Gibbons-Penrose construction of trapped surfaces

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/9/6/014zbMath0761.53045OpenAlexW1974853348WikidataQ122931972 ScholiaQ122931972MaRDI QIDQ4016993

K. Paul Tod

Publication date: 16 January 1993

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/9/6/014

zbMATH Keywords

spacetimecircumferencenull surfacemarginally trapped surfacespacelike hyperplaneshoop conjectureGibbons-Penrose constructionidealized shell of matter

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Black holes (83C57) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

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