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In the present work some generalizations of the Hawking singularity theorems in the context of $f(R)$ theories are presented. The assumptions are of these generalized theorems is that the matter fields satisfy the conditions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-25 Ivo Alani , Osvaldo Santillan

In this paper we discuss singularity theorems in quantum gravity using effective field theory methods. To second order in curvature, this effective field theory contains two new degrees of freedom which have important implications for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-15 Folkert Kuipers , Xavier Calmet

In this contribution, we study spacetimes of cosmological interest, without making any symmetry assumptions. We prove a rigid Hawking singularity theorem for positive cosmological constant, which sharpens known results. In particular, it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-16 Gregory J. Galloway , Leonardo García-Heveling

In this work we establish a version of the Bartnik Splitting Conjecture in the context of Lorentzian length spaces. In precise terms, we show that under an appropriate timelike completeness condition, a globally hyperbolic Lorentzian length…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-13 José Luis Flores , Jónatan Herrera , Didier A. Solis

Two spatial regions $B$ and $R$ are hyperentangled if the generalized entropy satisfies $S_{\text{gen}}^{B\cup R}<S_{\text{gen}}^R$. If in addition all future (or all past) directed inward null shape deformations of $B$ decrease…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-30 Raphael Bousso , Arvin Shahbazi-Moghaddam

We extend the validity of the Penrose singularity theorem to spacetime metrics of regularity $C^{1,1}$. The proof is based on regularisation techniques, combined with recent results in low regularity causality theory.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-15 Michael Kunzinger , Roland Steinbauer , James A. Vickers

We show the rigid singularity theorem, that is, a globally hyperbolic spacetime satisfying the strong energy condition and containing past trapped sets, either is timelike geodesically incomplete or splits isometrically as space $\times$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Makoto Narita

The Robinson Splitting Theorem states that a c.e. degree $\mathbf{b}$ splits over any low c.e. degree $\mathbf{c}<\mathbf{b}$. We prove that a weaker version of this theorem holds in models of $\mathrm{P}^-+\mathrm{I}\Sigma_1$, with lowness…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Yong Liu , Cheng Peng , Mengzhou Sun

In this paper, we have proved a weighted Laplacian comparison of distance function for manifolds with Bakry-\'Emery curvature bounded from below. Next, we have shown that a gradient $\rho$-Einstein soliton with a bounded integral condition…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Absos Ali Shaikh , Prosenjit Mandal , Chandan Kumar Mondal

New splitting theorems in a semi-Riemannian manifold which admits an irrotational vector field (not necessarily a gradient) with some suitable properties are obtained. According to the extras hypothesis assumed on the vector field, we can…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Manuel Gutierrez , Benjamin Olea

In this paper, we first derive a pinching estimate on the traceless Ricci curvature in term of scalar curvature and Weyl tensor under the Ricci flow. Then we apply this estimate to study finite-time singularity behavior. We show that if the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-11-02 Xiaodong Cao

We use a first-order energy quantity to prove a strengthened statement of uniqueness for the Ricci flow. One consequence of this statement is that if a complete solution on a noncompact manifold has uniformly bounded Ricci curvature, then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-30 Brett Kotschwar

We prove the Penrose-Wall singularity theorem in the full semiclassical gravity regime, significantly expanding its range of validity. To accomplish this, we modify the definition of quantum-trapped surfaces without affecting their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-31 Raphael Bousso

We prove a splitting theorem for a smooth noncompact manifold with (possibly noncompact) boundary. We show that if a noncompact manifold of dimension $n\geq 2$ has $\lambda_1(-\alpha\Delta+\operatorname{Ric})\geq 0$ for some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Han Hong , Gaoming Wang

Quantum fields do not satisfy the pointwise energy conditions that are assumed in the original singularity theorems of Penrose and Hawking. Accordingly, semiclassical quantum gravity lies outside their scope. Although a number of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-13 Christopher J. Fewster , Eleni-Alexandra Kontou

We develop an extension of Bohmian mechanics to a curved background space-time containing a singularity. The present paper focuses on timelike singularities. We use the naked timelike singularity of the super-critical Reissner-Nordstrom…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-02 Roderich Tumulka

We study geometry of complete Riemannian manifolds endowed with a weighted measure, where the weight function is of quadratic growth. Assuming the associated Bakry-Emery curvature is bounded from below, we derive a new Laplacian comparison…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-11-19 Ovidiu Munteanu , Jiaping Wang

The scope of this survey is to give a self-contained introduction to synthetic timelike Ricci curvature bounds for (possibly non-smooth) Lorentzian spaces via optimal transport $\&$ entropy tools, including a synthetic version of Hawking's…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-11 Fabio Cavalletti , Andrea Mondino

We explore the notion of m-intermediate Ricci curvature assumption introduced by Brendle-Hirsch-Johne further. If a manifold has non-negative m-intermediate Ricci curvature and stable weighted slicing of order m-1, then the last slice has…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Yujie Wu

We prove diameter bounds for graphs having positive Ricci-curvature bound in Bakry-Emery sense. One result using only curvature and maximal vertex degree is sharp in case of hypercubes. The other result depends on an additional dimension…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-03 Shiping Liu , Florentin Münch , Norbert Peyerimhoff