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gr-qc1994★ 28 cited
Topology Change in Classical General Relativity
Arvind Borde
This paper clarifies some aspects of Lorentzian topology change, and it extends to a wider class of spacetimes previous results of Geroch and Tipler that show that topology change…
gr-qc1994★ 175 cited
Open and Closed Universes, Initial Singularities and Inflation
Arvind Borde
The existence of initial singularities in expanding universes is proved without assuming the timelike convergence condition. The assumptions made in the proof are ones likely to ho…
gr-qc1994★ 5 cited
The Impossibility of Steady-State Inflation
Arvind Borde, Alexander Vilenkin
Inflation is known to be generically eternal to the future: the false vacuum is thermalized in some regions of space, while inflation continues in other regions. Here, we address t…