Classification of singular space-times

DOI10.1007/BF00776518zbMath0432.53044MaRDI QIDQ1138813

George F. R. Ellis, Bernd G. Schmidt

Publication date: 1979

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

plane wavesingularitycurvaturehomogeneous spaceSchwarzschild solutiongeneral relativitytidal forcegravitational wave detector

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Gravitational waves (83C35) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Theory of singularities and catastrophe theory (58K99) Differentiable maps on manifolds (58C25) Fiberings with singularities in algebraic topology (55R55)

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Identifying conical singularities ⋮ Algebraic invariants of the Riemann tensor in a four-dimensional Lorentzian space ⋮ Carter–Penrose diagrams and differential spaces ⋮ A complete set of Riemann invariants ⋮ Algebraic properties of Riemannian manifolds ⋮ Spacetime singularities and curvature blow-ups ⋮ Nonscalar singularities in spatially homogeneous cosmologies ⋮ Local properties and global structure of McVittie spacetimes with non-flat Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker backgrounds ⋮ Examples of covering properties of boundary points of space-times ⋮ An extension theorem for conformal gauge singularities ⋮ The algebra of two symmetric matrices: Proving completeness and deriving syzygies for a set of invariants of the Riemann tensor

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• Singularities in globally hyperbolic space-time
• A new definition of singular points in general relativity
• Singularities: The state of the art
• The classification of singularities
• What is a singularity in general relativity?
• The singularities of gravitational collapse and cosmology
• Ideal points in space-time
• The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time

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