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Cosmic Censorship near FLRW spacetimes with negative spatial curvature

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-06-25 v3 Mathematical Physics Analysis of PDEs math.MP

Abstract

We consider general initial data for the Einstein scalar-field system on a closed 33-manifold (M,γ)(M,\gamma) which is close to data for a Friedman-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker solution with homogeneous scalar field matter and a negative Einstein metric γ\gamma 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 Δγ-\Delta_\gamma 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 (M,γ)(M,\gamma) as the expansion normalized spatial geometry. In particular, the Strong Cosmic Censorship conjecture holds for this class of solutions in the C2C^{2}-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