Future Singularities and Completeness in Cosmology
Abstract
Description
We review recent work on the existence and nature of cosmological singularities that can be formed during the evolution of generic as well as specific cosmological spacetimes in general relativity. We first discuss necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of geodesically incomplete spacetimes based on a tensorial analysis of the geodesic equations. We then classify the possible singularities of isotropic globally hyperbolic universes using the Bel-Robinson slice energy that closely monitors the asymptotic properties of fields near the singularity. This classification includes all known forms of spacetime singularities in isotropic universes and also predicts new types.
10 pages, latex. To appear in the Proceedings of the Thessaloniki Meeting on Cosmology and Gravitational Physics, Thessaloniki, December 2005, Greece
10 pages, latex. To appear in the Proceedings of the Thessaloniki Meeting on Cosmology and Gravitational Physics, Thessaloniki, December 2005, Greece