Future timelike completeness conjecture for CMC Cauchy surfaces

Let (M,g)(M,g) be a spacetime with compact Cauchy surfaces. CMC existence conjecture. If (M,g)(M,g) is future timelike geodesically complete and satisfies the strong energy condition, then (M,g)(M,g) contains a CMC Cauchy surface. This conjecture is motivated by Bartnik's CMC existence theorem and the result that non-positive timelike sectional curvature gives the required compactness condition. The source notes partial support in a natural cosmological context and verifies the conjecture for spacetimes admitting a future-complete timelike conformal Killing vector field.

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Gregory J. Galloway and Eric Ling, “Remarks on the existence of CMC Cauchy surfaces”, arXiv:2104.02136 (2021).

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