Corrigendum to “Stable black holes: In vacuum and beyond”
Abstract
This note is a corrigendum to the paper by Elena Giorgi [Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 60 (2023), no. 1, 1–27] pointing out a misrepresentaton of the “Collapse conjecture”, which was proved by Christodoulou [The formation of black holes in general relativity, EMS Monographs in Mathematics, European Mathematical Society (EMS), Zürich, 2009].
In Section 3 of Reference 3 the characterization of the mathematical problem of gravitational collapse as the “Collapse conjecture” is incorrect. The first proof of formation of closed trapped surfaces, and eventually black holes, through the focusing of incoming gravitational waves for the Einstein vacuum equation was obtained in a breakthrough result by Christodoulou Reference 2 in 2009.
For more details about black hole formation, we refer to the survey paper by Bieri Reference 1.