Strong Cosmic Censorship in Vacuum Space-Times with Compact, Locally Homogeneous Cauchy Surfaces

1994/10/30 by Piotr T. Chruściel, Alan D. Rendall · 45 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #COSMIC cancer database #Cosmic censorship hypothesis #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #General relativity #Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows #Homogeneous #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Space (punctuation) #Statistical physics #Theoretical physics #Vacuum state #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.1006/aphy.1995.1084

published in Annals of Physics 242(2), 349-385 (Elsevier BV) · Latex, 38 pages

arxiv created 1994/10/30 · openalex publication_date 1995/09/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We consider the question of strong cosmic censorship in spatially compact, spatially locally homogeneous vacuum models. We show in particular that strong cosmic censorship holds in Bianchi IX vacuum space--times with spherical spatial topology.

Citations

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