Penrose’s cosmic censorship conjectures tagged posts

Proposed 15 yrs ago, the bounded L2 curvature conjecture has finally been proved by a group of 3 researchers at the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions (CNRS / UPMC / Université Paris Diderot) and Princeton University. It provides a potentially minimal framework in which it is possible to solve the Einstein equations, which in turn could be a critical step toward the proof of major conjectures, such as Penrose’s cosmic censorship conjectures. This work has appeared in Inventiones Mathematicae Oct14

Even though this yr marks its 100th anniversary, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity still holds its share of mysteries. This theory of gravitation stipulates that matter curves spacetime in proportion to the mass of the object...