Cosmic Censorship near FLRW spacetimes with negative spatial curvature
Abstract
We consider general initial data for the Einstein scalar-field system on a closed -manifold which is close to data for a Friedman-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker solution with homogeneous scalar field matter and a negative Einstein metric as spatial geometry. We prove that the maximal globally hyperbolic development of such initial data in the Einstein scalar-field system is past incomplete in the contracting direction and exhibits stable collapse into a Big Bang curvature singularity. Under an additional condition on the first positive eigenvalue of satisfied, for example, by closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds of small diameter, we prove that the data evolves to a future complete spacetime in the expanding direction which asymptotes to a vacuum Friedman solution with as the expansion normalized spatial geometry. In particular, the Strong Cosmic Censorship conjecture holds for this class of solutions in the -sense.
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@article{arxiv.2211.08052,
title = {Cosmic Censorship near FLRW spacetimes with negative spatial curvature},
author = {David Fajman and Liam Urban},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.08052},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
93 pages. Removed some typos and made some minor corrections; version as published in Analysis & PDE