Lifetimes of spherically symmetric closed universes

Details Lifetimes of spherically symmetric closed universes Lifetimes of spherically symmetric closed universes

1994-09-06

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9409011v1

Phys.Rev.D51:1621-1631,1995

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

12 pages (uuencoded postscript; self-unpacking), NCSU-MP-9402

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.51.1621

It is proven that any spherically symmetric spacetime that possesses a compact Cauchy surface $\Sigma$ and that satisfies the dominant-energy and non-negative-pressures conditions must have a finite lifetime in the sense that all timelike curves in such a spacetime must have a length no greater than $10 \max_\Sigma(2m)$, where $m$ is the mass associated with the spheres of symmetry. This result gives a complete resolution, in the spherically symmetric case, of one version of the closed-universe recollapse conjecture (though it is likely that a slightly better bound can be established). This bound has the desirable properties of being computable from the (spherically symmetric) initial data for the spacetime and having a very simple form. In fact, its form is the same as was established, using a different method, for the spherically symmetric massless scalar field spacetimes, thereby proving a conjecture offered in that work. Prospects for generalizing these results beyond the spherically symmetric case are discussed.

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