The cosmic censorship hypothesis for maximal Cauchy developments

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Let (Σ,hab,kab)(\Sigma, h_{ab}, k_{ab}) be an initial data set with Σ\Sigma three-dimensional. A spacetime is strongly causal if every point pp and neighborhood OO of pp have a neighborhood V⊆OV\subseteq O that no causal curve intersects more than once. For an initial data set, let H+(Σ)H^+(\Sigma) denote its future Cauchy horizon and let I−(p)I^-(p) denote the chronological past of pp. Cosmic censorship hypothesis. If the maximal Cauchy development of this initial data is extendible, then for each p∈H+(Σ)p\in H^+(\Sigma) in any extension, either strong causality is violated at pp or

I−(p)∩Σ‾\overline{I^-(p)\cap\Sigma}

is noncompact. This is a formulation of cosmic censorship intended to exclude physically unreasonable extensions with naked singularities; the source does not establish its resolution.

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Samuel C. Fletcher, John Byron Manchak, Mike D. Schneider and James Owen Weatherall, “Would Two Dimensions be World Enough for Spacetime?”, arXiv:1709.07438 (2018).

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