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On the instability of a class of generalized strong curvature singularities1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Witold Kondracki ,
Andrzej Królak  and
Wiesław Rudnicki
Witold Kondracki
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sniadeckich 8, 00-950 Warsaw, Poland
Andrzej Królak
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sniadeckich 8, 00-950 Warsaw, Poland
Wiesław Rudnicki
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, Pedagogical University, Rejtana 16A, 35-310 Rzeszów, Poland
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Cosmic censorship hypothesis [1] is a major unsolved problem in classical general relativity. According to this hypothesis singularities occurring in generic space-times should not be naked. This means that there should not be singularities to the future of a regular initial surface that are visible to observers at infinity A mathematically precise statement of the hypothesis is that a space-time should be future asymptotically predictable from a partial Cauchy surface ([2] p. 310).

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 114 , Issue 2 , September 1993 , pp. 379 - 382
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1993

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