The Hawking Energy on the Past Lightcone in Cosmology
arXiv:2003.13583 · doi:10.1088/1361-6382/aba182
Abstract
This work studies the Hawking energy in a cosmological context. The past lightcone of a point in spacetime is the natural geometric structure closely linked to cosmological observations. By slicing the past lightcone into a 1-parameter family of spacelike 2-surfaces, the evolution of the Hawking energy down the lightcone is studied. Strong gravitational fields may generate lightcone self-intersections and wave front singularities. We show that in the presence of swallow-tail type singularities, the Hawking energy and its variation along the null generators of the lightcone remains well-defined and subsequently discuss its positivity and monotonicity.
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