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Recollapse of the closed Tolman spacetimes

Gregory A. Burnett

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9308003

Abstract

The closed-universe recollapse conjecture is studied for the spherically symmetric spacetimes. It is proven that there exists an upper bound to the lengths of timelike curves in any Tolman spacetime that possesses S3 Cauchy surfaces and whose energy density is positive. Furthermore, an explicit bound is constructed from the initial data for such a spacetime.

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