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Introduction
Preliminary
Causal Structure of Spacetimes
A Global Structure?
The Basic Definitions on Global Structure
Causal Structure
Domain of Influence
Slices
Domain of Dependence
The Physical Significance of Curvature
Raychaudhuri Equation
Null Curve
Energy Condition
Conjugate Points
Trapped Surfaces
Singularity Theorems
About Singularity
Singularity Theorems
Application to Black Holes
Main
Topological Censorship
Physical Meaning of the Theorem
The Two Lemmas
About the Proof of the Theorem
Generalization of the Topological Censorship Theorem
Lemma 1
De Sitter Universe
Asymptotically de Sitter
De Sitter outside a Compact set S
Primordial Black Holes
About Black Hole
Constraint on Black Hole in the Universe
Appendix
Topological Censorship: original article
Article
Extract of the errata
Prerequisite
Topology of a Manifold
Einstein Equation
Some Solution of the Einstein Equation
Minkowski Spacetime
Schwarzschild Spacetime
Robertson & Walker Spacetime
The de Sitter Spacetime
Tools
Penrose Diagram
GR-Tensor
Notations and Commands
Input
Analogy with Fluid Dynamics
Analogy in the notation
Hypothesis
Equation
Volume Expansion in Robertson & Walker
Timelike Geodesics
Null Geodesics
Proof of the Theorem
The two Lemma
The Theorem
Acknowledgment
List of Figures
List of Tables
References
Index
Introduction
Peggy Varniere
Fri Jul 24 11:57:38 EDT 1998