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Hawking's singularity theorem for $C^{1,1}$-metrics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2016-09-15 v3 Mathematical Physics Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

We provide a detailed proof of Hawking's singularity theorem in the regularity class C1,1C^{1,1}, i.e., for spacetime metrics possessing locally Lipschitz continuous first derivatives. The proof uses recent results in C1,1C^{1,1}-causality theory and is based on regularisation techniques adapted to the causal structure.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1411.4689,
  title  = {Hawking's singularity theorem for $C^{1,1}$-metrics},
  author = {Michael Kunzinger and Roland Steinbauer and Milena Stojkovic and James A. Vickers},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.4689},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

19 pages, LaTeX; v2: corrected Lemma 4.2; v3: typos corrected, final version

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