We resolve the fate of the two original apparent horizons during the head-on merger of two non-spinning black holes, showing that these horizons exist for a finite amount of time before they individually turn around and move backward in time. This completes the understanding of the pair of pants diagram for the apparent horizon. Our result is facilitated by a new method for locating marginally outer trapped surfaces (MOTSs) based on a generalized shooting method. We also discuss the role played by the MOTS stability operator in discerning which among a multitude of MOTSs should be considered as black hole boundaries.
In this article, we give a definition of apparent horizon in a two dimensional general dilaton gravity theory. With this definition, we construct the mechanics of the apparent horizon by introducing a quasi-local energy of the theory. Our discussion generalizes the apparent horizons mechanics in general spherically symmetric spactimes in four or higher dimensions to the two dimensional dilaton gravity case.
The well known connection between black holes and thermodynamics, as well as their basic statistical mechanics, has been explored during the last decades since the published papers by Hawking, Jacobson and Unruh. In this work we have investigated the effects of three nongaussian entropies which are the modified Renyi entropy (MRE), Sharma-Mittal entropy (SME) and the dual Kaniadakis entropy (DKE) in the investigation of the generalized second law of thermodynamics, an extension of second law for black holes. Recently, it was analyzed that a total entropy is the sum of the entropy enclosed by the apparent horizon plus the entropy of the horizon itself when the apparent horizon is described by the Barrow entropy. It is assumed that the universe is filled with the matter and dark energy fluids. Here, as we said just above, the apparent horizon is described by the MRE and SME entropies, and then by the DKE proposal. We have established conditions where the second law of thermodynamics can or cannot be obeyed in the MRE, the SME as well as in the DKE just as it did in Barrows entropy.
A lamination of a graph embedded on a surface is a collection of pairwise disjoint non-contractible simple closed curves drawn on the graph. In the case when the surface is a sphere with three punctures (a.k.a. a pair of pants), we first identify the lamination space of a graph embedded on that surface as a lattice polytope, then we characterize the polytopes that arise as the lamination space of some graph on a pair of pants. This characterizes the image of a purely topological version of the spectral map for the vector bundle Laplacian for a flat connection on a pair of pants. The proof uses a graph exploration technique akin to the peeling of planar maps.
Using tropical geometry, Mikhalkin has proved that every smooth complex hypersurface in $mathbb{CP}^{n+1}$ decomposes into pairs of pants: a pair of pants is a real compact $2n$-manifold with cornered boundary obtained by removing an open regular neighborhood of $n+2$ generic hyperplanes from $mathbb{CP}^n$. As is well-known, every compact surface of genus $ggeqslant 2$ decomposes into pairs of pants, and it is now natural to investigate this construction in dimension 4. Which smooth closed 4-manifolds decompose into pairs of pants? We address this problem here and construct many examples: we prove in particular that every finitely presented group is the fundamental group of a 4-manifold that decomposes into pairs of pants.
There is a compelling connection between equations of gravity near the black-hole horizon and fluid-equations. The correspondence suggests a novel way to unearth microscopic degrees of freedom of the event horizons. In this work, we construct a microscopic model of the horizon-fluid of a 4-D asymptotically flat, quasi-stationary, Einstein black-holes. We demand that the microscopic model satisfies two requirements: First, the model should incorporate the near-horizon symmetries (S1 diffeomorphism) of a stationary black-hole. Second, the model possesses a mass gap. We show that the Eight-vertex Baxter model satisfies both the requirements. In the continuum limit, the Eight-vertex Baxter model is a massive free Fermion theory that is integrable with an infinite number of conserved charges. We show that this microscopic model explains the origin of the macroscopic properties of the horizon-fluid like bulk viscosity. Finally, we connect this model with Damours analysis and determine the mass-gap in the microscopic model.