Published November 7, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Properties of kinematic singularities

  • 1. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3J5 (Canada)
  • 2. Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Stavanger, N-4036 Stavanger (Norway)
  • 3. Albert-Einstein-Institut, Am Muehlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam (Germany)
  • 4. School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, E1 4NS (United Kingdom)

Description

The locally rotationally symmetric tilted perfect fluid Bianchi type V cosmological model provides examples of future geodesically complete spacetimes that admit a 'kinematic singularity' at which the fluid congruence is inextendible but all frame components of the Weyl and Ricci tensors remain bounded. We show that for any positive integer n there are examples of Bianchi type V spacetimes admitting a kinematic singularity such that the covariant derivatives of the Weyl and Ricci tensors up to the nth order also stay bounded. We briefly discuss singularities in classical spacetimes.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/26/21/215008

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/0264-9381/26/21/215008;
PII
S0264-9381(09)24319-X;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Classical and Quantum Gravity
Journal Volume
26
Journal Issue
21
Journal Page Range
[8 p.]
ISSN
0264-9381
CODEN
CQGRDG

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
41106617
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; FLUIDS; IDEAL FLOW; RICCI TENSOR; SINGULARITY; SPACE-TIME; SYMMETRY
Descriptors DEC
FLUID FLOW; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STEADY FLOW; TENSORS