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Border of spacetime

Tomohiro Harada and Ken-ichi Nakao
Phys. Rev. D 70, 041501(R) – Published 20 August 2004
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Abstract

It is still uncertain whether the cosmic censorship conjecture is true or not. To get a new insight into this issue, we propose the concept of the border of spacetime as a generalization of the spacetime singularity and discuss its visibility. The visible border, corresponding to the naked singularity, is not only relevant to mathematical completeness of general relativity but also a window into new physics in strongly curved spacetimes, which is in principle observable.

  • Received 11 March 2004

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.70.041501

©2004 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Tomohiro Harada*

  • Astronomy Unit, School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom

Ken-ichi Nakao

  • Department of Physics, Osaka City University, Osaka 558-8585, Japan

  • *Electronic address: T.Harada@qmul.ac.uk
  • Electronic address: knakao@sci.osaka-cu.ac.jp

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Vol. 70, Iss. 4 — 15 August 2004

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