 Trapped circle inside a nonrotating BTZ black hole (source code)

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= Trapped circle inside a nonrotating BTZ black hole
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For the nonrotating BTZ metric in ingoing coordinates, future null normals to a circle of fixed $v,r$ may be chosen as $\ell=\partial_v+(f/2)\partial_r$ and $n=-\partial_r$. Their expansions are $\theta_{(\ell)}=f/(2r)$ and $\theta_{(n)}=-1/r$, so both are negative inside the outer horizon.

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