Note on strong cosmic censorship for spherically symmetric Einstein-dust model

Abstract

In this note, we derive an ordinary differential equation for outgoing light rays in the spacetime of a spherically symmetric contracting dust cloud. The violation of strong cosmic censorship is equivalent to the existence of a solution blowing up at the centre of the symmetry. As an application, we reprove the generic violation of strong cosmic censorship for a dust cloud first proved by Christodoulou. We also derive a similar equation for a spherically symmetric dust cloud in the case of positive cosmological constant and show the generic violation of strong cosmic censorship in this case.