Published October 1, 1976 | Version v1
Journal article

Singularities in universes with negative cosmological constant

Creators

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park

Description

It is well known that many universes with negative cosmological constant contain singularities. We shall generalize this result by proving that all closed universes with negative cosmological constant are both future and past timelike geodesically incomplete if the strong energy condition holds. No global causality conditions or restrictions on the initial data are used in the proof. Furthermore, we shall show that all open universes with a Cauchy surface and a negative cosmological constant are singular if the strong energy condition holds

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
The Astrophysical Journal
Journal Volume
209
Journal Issue
1
Series
Astrophys. J.
Journal Page Range
12
ISSN
0004-637X

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
8297720
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
CAUCHY PROBLEM; COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; COSMOLOGY; EINSTEIN FIELD EQUATIONS; GENERAL RELATIVITY THEORY; GEODESICS; SINGULARITY; SPACE-TIME
Descriptors DEC
EQUATIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS

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