On the genericity of spacetime singularities
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
We consider here the genericity aspects of spacetime singularities that occur in cosmology and in gravitational collapse. The singularity theorems (that predict the occurrence of singularities in general relativity) allow the singularities of gravitational collapse to be either visible to external observers or covered by an event horizon of gravity. It is shown that the visible singularities that develop as final states of spherical collapse are generic. Some consequences of this fact are discussed.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0702116,
title = {On the genericity of spacetime singularities},
author = {Pankaj S. Joshi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0702116},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
19 pages, To be published in the Raychaudhuri Volume, eds. Naresh Dadhich, Pankaj Joshi and Probir Roy