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In this paper, we derive the solutions of orbit equations for a class of naked singularity spacetimes, and compare these with timelike orbits, that is, particle trajectories in the Schwarzschild black hole spacetime. The Schwarzschild and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-11 Parth Bambhaniya , Ashok B. Joshi , Dipanjan Dey , Pankaj S. Joshi

The celebrated geodesic congruence equation of Raychaudhuri, together with the resulting singularity theorems of Penrose and Hawking that it enabled, yield a highly general set of conditions under which a spacetime (or, more generically, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-14 Jonathan Gorard

The assumptions of the Hawking-Penrose singularity theorem are not covariant under field redefinitions. Thus we propose to study singularities in field space, where the spacetime metric is treated as a coordinate along with any other…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-04 Roberto Casadio , Alexander Kamenshchik , Iberê Kuntz

I argue that spacetime singularities entail no ontological commitment to material entities. First, I show that Penrose's singularity theorem is best understood as a theorem of incompleteness, it demonstrates the failure of specific…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Gustavo E. Romero

The interior of the Kerr solution is singular and achronological. The classic singularity theorem by Hawking and Penrose relies on chronology, and thus does not apply to the Kerr solution. An improvement of their theorem by Kriele partially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-05 Martin Lesourd

We consider globally hyperbolic spacetimes with compact Cauchy surfaces in a setting compatible with the presence of a positive cosmological constant. More specifically, for 3+1 dimensional spacetimes which satisfy the null energy condition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-13 Gregory J. Galloway , Eric Ling

We consider singularity theorems in asymptotically anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetimes. In the first part, we discuss the global methods used to show geodesic incompleteness and see that when the conditions imposed in Hawking and Penrose's…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Akihiro Ishibashi , Kengo Maeda

We use the phenomenological approach to study properties of space-time in the vicinity of the Schwarzschild black-hole singularity. Requiring finiteness of the Schwarzschild-like metrics we come to the notion of integrable singularity that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-24 Vladimir N. Lukash , Vladimir N. Strokov

We present here an overview of our basic understanding and recent developments on spacetime singularities in the Einstein theory of gravity. Several issues related to physical significance and implications of singularities are discussed.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Pankaj S. Joshi

We establish analogues of the Hawking and Penrose singularity theorems based on (a) averaged energy conditions with exponential damping; (b) conditions on local stress-energy averages inspired by the Quantum Energy Inequalities satisfied by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-01 Christopher J. Fewster , Gregory J. Galloway

There has been a lot of interests in Positive Mass Theorems for singular metrics on smooth manifolds. We prove a positive mass theorem for asymptotically flat (AF) spin manifolds with isolated conical singularities or more generally horn…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Xianzhe Dai , Yukai Sun , Changliang Wang

In arXiv:1310.3002, Lee and Neves proved a Penrose inequality for spacetimes with negative cosmological constant and nonpositive mass aspect. As an application, they were able to obtain a static uniqueness theorem for Kottler spacetimes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-10 Stefano Borghini

The original singularity theorems of Penrose and Hawking were proved for matter obeying the Null Energy Condition or Strong Energy Condition respectively. Various authors have proved versions of these results under weakened hypotheses, by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-08 Christopher J. Fewster , Eleni-Alexandra Kontou

The existence of black holes in the Universe is nowadays established on the grounds of a blench of astrophysical observations, most notably those of gravitational waves from binary mergers and the imaging of supermassive objects at the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-24 Haroldo C. D. Lima Junior , Renan B. Magalhães , Gonzalo J. Olmo , Diego Rubiera-Garcia

In this note we discuss the hypothesis of a presence of the negative mass in the Schwarzschild's spacetime following to ideas of \cite{Villata,Chardin}. We demonstrate, that the discrete $PT$ transformation of the coordinates and mass…

General Physics · Physics 2019-07-04 S. Bondarenko

In a previous paper [9], we proved the following singularity theorem applicable to cosmological models with a positive cosmological constant: if a four-dimensional spacetime satisfying the null energy condition contains a compact Cauchy…

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The global hyperbolicity assumption present in gravitational collapse singularity theorems is in tension with the quantum mechanical phenomenon of black hole evaporation. In this work I show that the causality conditions in Penrose's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-31 E. Minguzzi

Spacetime singularity has always been of interest since the proof of the Penrose-Hawking singularity theorem. Naked singularity naturally emerges from reasonable initial conditions in the collapsing process. A recent interesting approach in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-28 Hongsheng Zhang

We show that algebraically special modes lead to the instability of naked singularity spacetimes with negative mass. Four-dimensional negative-mass Schwarzschild and Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetimes are unstable. Stability of the…

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We show that a globally hyperbolic spacetime containing a trapped surface and satisfying the strong energy condition and a condition on certain radial tidal forces must be timelike geodesically incomplete. This constitutes a "timelike"…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-07 Leonardo García-Heveling