Horizon surface gravity as 2d geodesic expansion
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🌀 gr-qc
hep-th
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expansionhorizonkillinggravityobserverssurfacetwo-dimensionalcongruence
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The surface gravity of any Killing horizon, in any spacetime dimension, can be interpreted as a local, two-dimensional expansion rate seen by freely falling observers when they cross the horizon. Any two-dimensional congruence of geodesics invariant under the Killing flow can be used to define this expansion, provided that the observers have unit Killing energy.
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