English

On the genericity of singularities in spacetimes with weakly trapped submanifolds

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

Abstract

We investigate suitable, physically motivated conditions on spacetimes containing certain submanifolds - the so-called {weakly trapped submanifolds} - that ensure, in a set of neighboring metrics with respect to a convenient topology, that the phenomenon of nonspacelike geodesic incompleteness (i.e., the existence of singularities) is generic in a precise technical sense. We obtain two sets of results. First, we use strong Whitney topologies on spaces of Lorentzian metrics on a manifold MM, in the spirit of Lerner and obtain that while the set of singular Lorentzian metrics around a fiducial one possessing a weakly trapped submanifold Σ\Sigma is not really generic, it is nevertheless prevalent in a sense we define, and thus still quite ``large'' in this sense. We prove versions of that result both for the case when Σ\Sigma has codimension 2, and for the case of higher codimension. The second set of results explore a similar question, but now for initial data sets containing MOTS. For this case, we use certain well-known infinite dimensional, Hilbert manifold structures on the space of initial data and use abstract functional-analytic methods based on the work of Biliotti, Javaloyes, and Piccione to obtain a true genericity of null geodesic incompleteness around suitable initial data sets containing MOTS.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2406.09651,
  title  = {On the genericity of singularities in spacetimes with weakly trapped submanifolds},
  author = {Victor Luis Espinoza and Ivan Pontual Costa e Silva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.09651},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2309.03421