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Genericity of singularities in spacetimes with weakly trapped submanifolds

Differential Geometry 2025-03-21 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Using the standard Whitney topologies on spaces of Lorentzian metrics, we show that the existence of causal incomplete geodesics is a CC^\infty-generic feature within the class of spacetimes of a given dimension n3n\geq 3 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 CC^\infty-genericity result for stably causal spacetimes with a suitably modified curvature condition and weakly trapped closed spacelike submanifold of any codimension k>2k> 2.

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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