outer trapped surface

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outer trapped surface [¦au̇d·ər ¦trapt ′sər·fəs]

(relativity)

A compact, spacelike, two-dimensional surface in a space-time, such that outgoing light rays perpendicular to the surface are not diverging; whether ingoing light rays are converging or not is immaterial.

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