Genericity of singularities in spacetimes with weakly trapped submanifolds
Abstract
Using the standard Whitney topologies on spaces of Lorentzian metrics, we show that the existence of causal incomplete geodesics is a -generic feature within the class of spacetimes of a given dimension that are stably causal, satisfy the timelike convergence condition (``strong energy condition'') and contain a codimension-two spacelike weakly trapped closed submanifold such as, e.g., a marginally outer trapped surface (MOTS). By using a singularity theorem of Galloway and Senovilla for spacetimes containing trapped closed submanifolds of codimension higher than two we also prove an analogous -genericity result for stably causal spacetimes with a suitably modified curvature condition and weakly trapped closed spacelike submanifold of any codimension .
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@article{arxiv.2309.03421,
title = {Genericity of singularities in spacetimes with weakly trapped submanifolds},
author = {Ivan Pontual Costa e Silva and Victor Luis Espinoza},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.03421},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
Preprint was revised and expanded in arXiv:2406.09651