Static solutions from the point of view of comparison geometry

Reiris, Martin

doi:10.1063/1.3668045

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Static solutions from the point of view of comparison geometry

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Reiris, Martin
Geometric Analysis and Gravitation, AEI-Golm, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Reiris, M. (2012). Static solutions from the point of view of comparison geometry. Journal of Mathematical Physics, 53: 012501. doi:10.1063/1.3668045.

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We analyze (the harmonic map representation of) static solutions of the Einstein Equations in dimension three from the point of view of comparison geometry. We find simple monotonic quantities capturing sharply the influence of the Lapse function on the focussing of geodesics. This allows, in particular, a sharp estimation of the Laplacian of the distance function to a given (hyper)-surface. We apply the technique to asymptotically flat solutions with regular and connected horizons and, after a detailed analysis of the distance function to the horizon, we recover the Penrose inequality and the uniqueness of the Schwarzschild solution. The proof of this last result does not require proving conformal flatness at any intermediate step.