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How generic are null spacetime singularities?

Amos Ori and Éanna É. Flanagan
Phys. Rev. D 53, R1754(R) – Published 15 February 1996
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Abstract

The spacetime singularities inside realistic black holes are sometimes thought to be spacelike and strong, since there is a generic class of solutions (BKL) to Einstein’s equations with these properties. We show that null, weak singularities are also generic, in the following sense: there is a class of vacuum solutions containing null, weak singularities, depending on 8 arbitrary (up to some inequalities) analytic initial functions of 3 spatial coordinates. Since 8 arbitrary functions are needed (in the gauge used here) to span the generic solution, this class can be regarded as generic. © 1996 The American Physical Society.

  • Received 1 September 1995

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.53.R1754

©1996 American Physical Society

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Amos Ori

  • Department of Physics, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, 32000 Haifa, Israel

Éanna É. Flanagan

  • Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637-1433

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Vol. 53, Iss. 4 — 15 February 1996

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