Existence of CMC Cauchy surfaces and spacetime splitting

DOI10.4310/PAMQ.2019.V15.N2.A2MaRDI QIDQ2287358zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Greg Galloway

Publication date 20 January 2020

Published in Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08803

zbMATH Keywords

CMC Cauchy surfacescosmologyexistence of constant mean curvature space-like hypersurfacesLorenzian horospheresLorenzian splittingnonexistence of constant mean curvature space-like hypersurfacessingularity problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Black holes (83C57) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: In this paper, we review results on the existence (and nonexistence) of constant mean curvature spacelike hypersurfaces in the cosmological setting, and discuss the connection to the spacetime splittng problem. It is a pleasure to dedicate this paper to Robert Bartnik, who has made fundamental contributions to this area.

Review text

The author is reviewing the results on existence (or nonexistence) of constant mean curvature spacelike hypersurfaces in the cosmological setting, and discusses the connection to the space-time splitting problem. The author is accentuating the contribution by \textit{R. Bartnik} [Commun. Math. Phys. 117, No. 4, 615--624 (1988; Zbl 0647.53044)] to the solving of the problem. To the knowledge of the reviewer there are no papers by Robert Bartnik published after 2010, while the biographic sources are very scarce.

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• Global stability of spacetimes with supersymmetric compactifications
• On conformal Lorentzian length spaces
• Examples of cosmological spacetimes without CMC Cauchy surfaces
• A note on the Lorentzian splitting theorem
• A CMC existence result for expanding cosmological spacetimes
• Minimal elements of the causal boundary with applications to spacetime splitting
• Isometries of spacetimes without observer horizons
• Vacuum cosmological spacetimes without CMC Cauchy surfaces
• Exact d'Alembertian for Lorentz distance functions revision

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