Relative Lorentzian volume comparison with integral Ricci and scalar curvature bound (Q533427)

The author obtains a relative Lorentzian volume comparison estimate of the Lorentzian volume between space-like level hypersurfaces. The model space is a Lorentzian warped product as a generalization of the Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker space-time. Consider the warped product \(\overline M=(0,a)\times_f H(1)\) where the present time is \(t=r_0\), \(0<r_0<a\), and the space-like hypersurface \(H(r_0)\) is orthogonal to the observer time along a stationary geodesic \(\overline \gamma (t)= (t, \overline q)\) for some \(\overline q \in H(r_0)\). The author obtains the inequality \(V_{r_0}(r)/\overline V_{r_0}(r) \geq V_{r_0}(R)/\overline V_{r_0}(R)\) where \(R\) is less than the minimum of the focal value of \(H(r_0)\) and \(H_{r_0}\). A generalization of this inequality is presented in Theorem 2.