Solution

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A future trapped surface is a closed spacelike two-surface for which both future orthogonal null expansions are strictly negative. Multiplying a future null vector normal by a positive function multiplies its null expansion by that function, so the signs are invariant under allowed normalization changes.
Here for every . Thus the Reissner-Nordstrom trapped spheres are exactly those with . Since ,
At either horizon , so the spheres are marginal, rather than strictly trapped surfaces. For or , and this future-trapping condition fails. In particular, being inside the outer event horizon alone is insufficient to make every sphere trapped in the charged solution.

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