• DOI:10.1023/A:1024170711427
Corpus ID: 123650253

Does the Principle of Equivalence Prohibit Trapped Surfaces from Forming in the General Relativistic Collapse Process?

@article{Leiter2003DoesTP,
  title={Does the Principle of Equivalence Prohibit Trapped Surfaces from Forming in the General Relativistic Collapse Process?},
  author={D. Leiter and S. Robertson},
  journal={Foundations of Physics Letters},
  year={2003},
  volume={16},
  pages={143-161}
}

D. Leiter, S. Robertson

Published 2003

Physics

Foundations of Physics Letters

It has recently been shown that time-like spherical collapse of a physical fluid in General Relativity does not permit formation of “trapped surfaces.” This result followed from the fact that the formation of a trapped surface in a physical fluid would cause the time-like world lines of the collapsing fluid to become null at the would-be trapped surface, thus violating the Principle of Equivalence in General Theory of Relativity (GTR). For the case of the spherical collapse of a physical fluid… CONTINUE READING

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