Cosmological Singularities
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
An overview is provided of the singularity theorems in cosmological contexts at a level suitable for advanced graduate students. The necessary background from tensor and causal geometry to understand the theorems is supplied, the mathematical notion of a cosmology is described in some detail and issues related to the range of validity of general relativity are also discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0201067,
title = {Cosmological Singularities},
author = {Spiros Cotsakis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0201067},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
41 pages, 11pt. To be published in the Springer LNP Proceedings of the First Aegean Summer School of Cosmology held on Samos, Greece, in September 21-29, 2001