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About the Proof of the Theorem

After the study of the singularity theorem  (chapter gif) this will be easier!

An important idea in the proof of the topological censorship is the one of covering space . It is the manifold resulting from the unwrapping of the spacetime.

By construction the covering manifold of an asymptotically flat spacetime containing topology  has lot of asymptotic regions. Because of that there are indices a on the . There are several asypmtotical region where curves can go.

Then by using this idea one can prove the Topological Censorship theorem. This proof is by contradiction

From the orginal spacetime we construct a simply connected covergif.

We have the curves and like in the figure gif but now in the covering space connects to an other asymptotic region.

Large sphere in this region are strongly outer trapped (definition gif page gif) with respect to . Thus it cannot be seen from (by lemma 2).

Like passes through it, it cannot be seen either. It is the contradiction, therefore we prove that we are not able to probe the topology.



Peggy Varniere
Fri Jul 24 11:57:38 EDT 1998