Topology and singularities in cosmological spacetimes obeying the null energy condition

DOI10.1007/S00220-017-3020-9zbMATH Open1450.83004arXiv1705.06705OpenAlexW2616283120WikidataQ125102006 ScholiaQ125102006MaRDI QIDQ1650141FDOQ1650141

Authors: Gregory J. Galloway, Eric Ling 

Publication date: 2 July 2018

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider globally hyperbolic spacetimes with compact Cauchy surfaces in a setting compatible with the presence of a positive cosmological constant. More specifically, for 3+1 dimensional spacetimes which satisfy the null energy condition and contain a future expanding compact Cauchy surface, we establish a precise connection between the topology of the Cauchy surfaces and the occurrence of past singularities. In addition to (a refinement of) the Penrose singularity theorem, the proof makes use of some recent advances in the topology of 3-manifolds and of certain fundamental existence results for minimal surfaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.06705

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zbMATH Keywords

singularitiesglobal structure of space-time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

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