Christodoulou's trapped-surface conjecture for terminal indecomposable past sets

Let (M,g)(M,g) be the maximal future development of generic asymptotically flat initial data. A terminal indecomposable past set is a past set P\mathcal{P} in MM of the type described in the conjecture, and let KK be the compact closure of its trace on the initial-data hypersurface. For any open domain DD containing KK, Christodoulou's trapped-surface conjecture. The domain of dependence of DD in MM contains a closed trapped surface. This conjecture is formulated as an essential intermediate step toward proving weak cosmic censorship. The supplied context states that weak cosmic censorship remains open, while related results are known for the Einstein–scalar field model in spherical symmetry and recent work has constructed vacuum spacetimes with naked singularities.

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Serban Cicortas, “Extensions of Lorentzian Hawking–Page Solutions with Null Singularities, Spacelike Singularities, and Cauchy horizons of Taub–NUT type”, arXiv:2209.06134 (2022).

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2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017–2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1710.02422.

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