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Initial data sets with dominant energy condition admitting no smooth dec spacetime extension

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-03-11 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

There are two versions of the dominant energy condition (=dec): The original one for Lorentzian manifolds and an associated one for initial data sets. If a Lorentzian manifold satisfies dec, then so does the induced initial set on any embedded spacelike hypersurface. In this article, we discuss the question of a potential converse of this: Is every dec initial data set the induced one on a spacelike hypersurface within a suitably chosen dec Lorentzian manifold? We provide an example showing that in general the answer is no if we require all structures to be smooth.

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@article{arxiv.2308.00643,
  title  = {Initial data sets with dominant energy condition admitting no smooth dec spacetime extension},
  author = {Jonathan Glöckle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.00643},
  year   = {2025}
}

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