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The Schwarzschild spacetime metric of negative mass is well-known to contain a naked singularity. In a spacelike slice, this singularity of the metric is characterized by the property that nearby surfaces have arbitrarily small area. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-11 Hubert L. Bray , Jeffrey L. Jauregui

The singularity theorem by Hawking and Penrose qualifies Schwarzschild black-holes as geodesic incomplete space-times. Albeit this is a mathematically rigorous statement, it requires an operational framework that allows to probe the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-04 Stefan Hofmann , Marc Schneider

In this short paper, Penrose's famous singularity theorem is applied to the Kerr space-time. In the case of the maximally extended space-time, the assumptions of Penrose's singularity theorem are not satisfied as the space-time is not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-01 Jonathan Brook , Chris Stevens

This work is an extensive literature review focusing on a few of the important topics in the large-scale structure of spacetime. The work is a Bachelor's thesis submitted at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Leipzig. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-18 Rohan Kulkarni

We consider versions of the Penrose singularity theorem and the Hawking horizon topology theorem in weighted spacetimes that contain weighted versions of trapped surfaces, for arbitrary spacetime dimension and synthetic dimension. We find…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-03 Eric Ling , Argam Ohanyan , Eric Woolgar

We study the negative mass Schwarzschild spacetime, which has a naked singularity, and show that it is perturbatively unstable. This is achieved by first introducing a modification of the well known Regge - Wheeler - Zerilli approach to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Reinaldo J. Gleiser , Gustavo Dotti

The classical singularity theorems of R. Penrose and S. Hawking from the 1960s show that, given a pointwise energy condition (and some causality as well as initial assumptions), spacetimes cannot be geodesically complete. Despite their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Melanie Graf , Eleni-Alexandra Kontou , Argam Ohanyan , Yasmin Schinnerl

This article presents a comprehensive and rigorous overview of spacetime singularities within the framework of classical General Relativity. Singularities are defined through the failure of geodesic completeness, reflecting the limits of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Jean-Pierre Luminet

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

The 2020 Nobel prize in Physics has revived the interest in the singularity theorems and, in particular, in the Penrose theorem published in 1965. In this short paper I briefly review the main ideas behind the theorems and then proceed to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-23 José M. M. Senovilla

Cosmological singularity theorems such as that of Hawking and Penrose assume local curvature conditions as well as global ones like the existence of a compact (achronal) slice. Here, we prove a new singularity theorem for chronological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-29 Martin Lesourd

The singularity theorems of Penrose, Hawking, and Geroch predict the existence of incomplete inextendible causal geodesics in a wide range of physically adequate spacetimes modeling the gravitational collapse of stars and the expanding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-03 István Rácz

An extension of Penrose's singularity theorem is proved for spacetimes where black holes are allowed to form from non-singular initial data. With standard assumptions about the spacetime, and assuming the existence of a trapped surface…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-26 Alexander Vilenkin , Aron C. Wall

We present the geodesical completion of the Schwarzschild black hole in four dimensions which covers the entire space in (u,v) Kruskal-Szekeres coordinates, including the spacetime behind the black and white hole singularities. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-13 Ignacio J. Araya , Itzhak Bars , Albin James

In this paper, we study rigidity aspects of Penrose's singularity theorem. Specifically, we aim to answer the following question: if a spacetime satisfies the hypotheses of Penrose's singularity theorem except with weakly trapped surfaces…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-23 Gregory J. Galloway , Eric Ling

We prove the uniqueness theorem for self-gravitating non-linear sigma-models in higher dimensional spacetime. Applying the positive mass theorem we show that Schwarzschild-Tagherlini spacetime is the only maximally extended, static…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Marek Rogatko

The 1965 Penrose singularity theorem demonstrates the utterly inevitable and unavoidable formation of spacetime singularities under physically reasonable assumptions, and it remains one of the main results in our understanding of black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-29 Raúl Carballo-Rubio , Francesco Di Filippo , Stefano Liberati , Matt Visser

The singularity theorems of Hawking and Penrose tell us that singularities are common place in general relativity. Singularities not only occur at the beginning of the Universe at the Big Bang, but also in complete gravitational collapses…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-20 Yen Chin Ong

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 paper we prove the Penrose inequality for metrics that are small perturbations of the Schwarzschild anti-de Sitter metrics of positive mass. We use the existence of a global foliation by weakly stable constant mean curvature spheres…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Lucas C. Ambrozio
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