A note on behaviour at an isotropic singularity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/18/6/311MaRDI QIDQ2718520zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Brien C. Nolan

Publication date 20 June 2001

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0101119

zbMATH Keywords

isotropic singularityJacobi fieldLorentz manifoldtimelike geodesic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Global differential geometry (53C99) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

Abstract: The behaviour of Jacobi fields along a time-like geodesic running into an isotropic singularity is studied. It is shown that the Jacobi fields are crushed to zero length at a rate which is the same in every direction orthogonal to the geodesic. We show by means of a counter-example that this crushing effect depends crucially on a technicality of the definition of isotropic singularities, and not just on the uniform degeneracy of the metric at the singularity.

Review text

A spacetime \((\overline{M},\overline{g})\) is said to admit an isotropic singularity if there exists a spacetime \((M,g)\), a smooth cosmic time function \(t\) defined on \(M\) and a function \(\Omega(t)\) such that: (a) \(\overline{M}\) is the open submanifold \(t>0\); (b) \(\overline{g} =\Omega^2(t)g\) on \(\overline{M}\), with \(g\in C^3\) and non-degenerate on an neighbourhood of \(t=0\); (c) \(\Omega\in C[0,b]\cap C^3(0,b]\) for some \(b>0\) and \(\Omega (t)>0\) for \(t\in (0,b]\); (d) the limit \(\lambda=\lim_{t\to 0+}\Omega\Omega/(\Omega')^2\neq 1\) exists, where the prime indicates differention with respect to \(t\). The author shows that every Jacobi field along a timelike geodesic running into an isotropic singularity is crushed to zero length at the same rate as the singularity is approached. The rate at which this crushing takes place depends only on the index \(\lambda\).

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