Future causal geodesic completeness conjecture for symmetric cosmological spacetimes

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Let (M,g)(\mathcal{M},g) be the maximal Cauchy development of T2T^2-symmetric or k=−1k=-1 surface-symmetric initial data in the vacuum or with Vlasov matter and with Λ≥0\Lambda \ge 0. Assume (M,g)(\mathcal{M},g) is non-flat. Denote by tt the area of the orbits of symmetry and orient (M,g)(\mathcal{M},g) by ∇t\nabla t. Future causal completeness conjecture. Then (M,g)(\mathcal{M},g) is future causally complete. This conjecture extends known future geodesic-completeness results for Gowdy spacetimes, for small data in the k=−1k=-1 surface-symmetric case, and for Λ>0\Lambda>0. The general case for non-flat T2T^2-symmetric and k=−1k=-1 surface-symmetric spacetimes remains open.

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Jacques Smulevici, “On the area of the symmetry orbits of cosmological spacetimes with toroidal or hyperbolic symmetry”, arXiv:0904.0806 (2009).

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