Brown-york mass and the Thorne hoop conjecture.
Brown-york mass and the Thorne hoop conjecture.
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.104.041101
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发表时间:
2009-12
影响因子:
8.6
通讯作者:
N. Murchadha;R. Tung;Naqing Xie;E. Malec
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作者:
N. Murchadha;R. Tung;Naqing Xie;E. Malec
The Thorne hoop conjecture is an attempt to make precise the notion that gravitational collapse occurs if enough energy is compressed into a small enough volume, with the "size" being defined by the circumference. We can make a precise statement of this form, in spherical symmetry, using the Brown-York mass as our measure of the energy. Consider a spherical 2-surface in a spherically symmetric spacetime. If the Brown-York mass M{BY} and the circumference C satisfy C<2piM{BY}, then the system must either have emerged from a white hole or will collapse into a black hole. We show that no equivalent result can hold true using either the Liu-Yau mass M{LY} or the Wang-Yau mass M{WY}. This forms a major obstacle to any attempt to establish a Thorne-type hoop theorem in the general case based on either the Liu-Yau or the Wang-Yau mass.