Topological censorship from the initial data point of view

DOI10.4310/JDG/1381931733zbMATH Open1279.83027arXiv1204.0278OpenAlexW2963828851WikidataQ115169154 ScholiaQ115169154MaRDI QIDQ378043FDOQ378043

Michael Eichmair, Daniel Pollack, Gregory J. Galloway

Publication date: 20 November 2013

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce a natural generalization of marginally outer trapped surfaces, called immersed marginally outer trapped surfaces, and prove that three dimensional asymptotically flat initial data sets either contain such surfaces or are diffeomorphic to R^3. We establish a generalization of the Penrose singularity theorem which shows that the presence of an immersed marginally outer trapped surface generically implies the null geodesic incompleteness of any spacetime that satisfies the null energy condition and which admits a non-compact Cauchy surface. Taken together, these results can be viewed as an initial data version of the Gannon-Lee singularity theorem. The first result is a non-time-symmetric version of a theorem of Meeks-Simon-Yau which implies that every asymptotically flat Riemannian 3-manifold that is not diffeomorphic to R^3 contains an embedded stable minimal surface. We also obtain an initial data version of the spacetime principle of topological censorship. Under physically natural assumptions, a 3-dimensional asymptotically flat initial data set with marginally outer trapped boundary and no immersed marginally outer trapped surfaces in its interior is diffeomorphic to R^3 minus a finite number of open balls. An extension to higher dimensions is also discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.0278

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zbMATH Keywords

topological censorshipinitial datamarginally outer trapped surfacesnon-compact Cauchy surfacenull geodesic incompletenesssingularity theorem

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) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Black holes (83C57) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

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