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Bombelli's conjecture on reconstructing spacetime from permuted chronological orders
Let and be the spacetimes under consideration. For each , let and be the corresponding probability…
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Holographic screen conjecture for general spacetimes
Holographic screen conjecture. The holographic screen should be the appropriate analogue of the AdS boundary for a holographic description of general spacetimes.
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The entanglement requirement for connected spacetime geometry
Entanglement–geometry conjecture. Quantum entanglement is necessary for connected spacetime geometry.
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Higher-dimensional cNTV spacetimes refute the two-light-line axiom
Let and let be a cNTV -dimensional spacetime. Write \langle M, \mathrel{\scalebox{0.85}{oldalpha}} \rangle for its frame with the causal relation…
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The no-hair conjecture for stationary black holes
Let a stationary black hole be characterized by its mass, spin, and electric charge. No-hair conjecture. All stationary black holes are diffeomorphic to the Kerr--Newman spacetime…
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The higher-dimensional spacetime density conjecture
Higher-dimensional spacetime density conjecture. There exists an integer such that, for every , there exists a positive integer with the property that whe…
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Conjecture on the Sormani-Wenger Intrinsic Flat limit of a blow-up spline
Let the sequence of warped product spacetimes in Example … with the taxi space portion removed. The conjecture concerns the discrepancy between Gromov–Hausdorff and Sormani-Wenger…
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Ehlers–Pirani–Schild conjecture on the metric nature of free fall and null rays
The spacetime manifold is endowed with a projective structure by the principle of universality of free fall, meaning an equivalence class of curves up to reparametrization, and wit…
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Lee and Sormani's SWIF convergence conjecture for spacelike slices
In the setting of spacelike slices, Sormani–Wenger intrinsic flat convergence (SWIF convergence) is the convergence of metric spaces obtained from spacelike slices of spacetimes. L…
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The dynamical-topology conjecture for spacetime geometry
A spacetime is considered together with a fixed topology that supplies its topological properties and influences its geometric description. Dynamical-topology conjecture. The chall…
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Maldacena's rigidity conjecture for asymptotically spacetimes
Let a spacetime be asymptotically and satisfy the null energy condition, or more generally the averaged null energy condition. Maldacena's conjecture. Any such s…
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Universality conjecture for the influence of spacetime geometry on quantum systems
The authors consider quantum mechanical systems on a fixed type of spacetime geometry, allowing the involved particles to have different spins. Universality conjecture. The influen…
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A cohomology theory for the category of spacetimes
The category of spacetimes is studied using chains of Cauchy wedges, with its connected components labelled by equivalence classes of Riemannian manifolds of dimension , modul…
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Non-invariance of the spacetime interval under boosts for N-dimensional unitary transformations
Boost non-invariance conjecture. The spacetime interval is not invariant under boosts for ; in particular, under an infinitesimal boost one obtains
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Weak ultimate Schwarzschild conjecture for the spacetime of Theorem maintheorem
The spacetime under consideration satisfies the hypotheses of Theorem … is weakly ultimately Schwarzschildean to order . This conjecture is motivated by techniques that obtain…
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The strong cosmic censorship conjecture
Let the initial data be generic compact or asymptotically flat data for a suitable Einstein–matter system, and let its maximal Cauchy development be the corresponding maximal globa…