Galloway–Ling conjecture on CMC Cauchy surfaces

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Let (M,g)(M,g) be a globally hyperbolic, future timelike geodesically complete spacetime with compact Cauchy surfaces satisfying the strong energy condition. A CMC Cauchy surface is a Cauchy surface whose mean curvature is constant.

Galloway–Ling conjecture. Then MM contains a CMC Cauchy surface.

The conjecture concerns the existence of constant-mean-curvature Cauchy surfaces in cosmological spacetimes. It is motivated by results establishing such a surface under the additional assumption of nonpositive timelike sectional curvature; the status of the stated general version is not resolved in the supplied text.

References

Primary source

Eric Ling and Argam Ohanyan, “Examples of cosmological spacetimes without CMC Cauchy surfaces”, arXiv:2311.13715 (2024).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2019–2023). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1907.00295.

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