No-naked-singularity conjecture for cosmological spacetimes

Let (M~,g^)(\widetilde{M}, \widehat{g}) be a smooth, time-oriented, globally hyperbolic Lorentzian (3+1)(3+1)-dimensional spacetime with M~≅M×R\widetilde{M} \cong M \times \mathbb{R}, where MM is a closed, connected, oriented three-manifold. Suppose g^\widehat{g} satisfies the Einstein field equations

Ric⁡g^−12Rg^g^+Λg^=T.\operatorname{Ric}_{\widehat{g}} - \tfrac{1}{2} R_{\widehat{g}} \widehat{g} + \Lambda \widehat{g} = \mathcal{T}.

Here Λ∈R\Lambda \in \mathbb{R} is the cosmological constant and T\mathcal{T} is a smooth energy-momentum tensor obeying the dominant energy condition and representing physically reasonable matter and radiation content. No-naked-singularity conjecture. For an open and dense set of smooth initial data prescribed on a Cauchy hypersurface M×{t0}M \times \{t_0\} satisfying the Einstein constraint equations, the maximal globally hyperbolic development (M~,g^)(\widetilde{M}, \widehat{g}) does not develop a future naked singularity; that is, any future singularity, if it forms, is not visible to any future-directed timelike curve originating from the initial hypersurface. This is a cosmological analogue of weak cosmic censorship. The supplied text gives no resolution or established range of validity, so the conjecture remains open.

References

Primary source

Puskar Mondal, “A large data result for vacuum Einstein's equations”, arXiv:2502.11289 (2026).

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