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Border of Spacetime

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-10 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

It is still uncertain whether the cosmic censorship conjecture is true or not. To get a new insight into this issue, we propose the concept of the border of spacetime as a generalization of the spacetime singularity and discuss its visibility. The visible border, corresponding to the naked singularity, is not only relevant to mathematical completeness of general relativity but also a window into new physics in strongly curved spacetimes, which is in principle observable.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0407034,
  title  = {Border of Spacetime},
  author = {Tomohiro Harada and Ken-ichi Nakao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0407034},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in Physical Review D, typos corrected