A singularity theorem based on spatial averages
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A singularity theorem based on spatial averages
Inspired by Raychaudhuri’s work, and using the equation named after him as a basic ingredient, I prove a new singularity theorem: open non-rotating everywhere expanding universes with non-vanishing spatial average of the matter variables are totally geodesically incomplete to the past. Another way of stating the same is that, under the same conditions, any singularity-free model must have a van...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Pramana
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0304-4289,0973-7111
DOI: 10.1007/s12043-007-0109-2