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Singularity Theorems and Their Consequences

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A detailed study of the singularity theorems is presented. I discuss the plausibility and reasonability of their hypotheses, the applicability and implications of the theorems, as well as the theorems themselves. The consequences usually extracted from them, some of them without the necessary rigour, are widely and carefully analysed with many clarifying examples and alternative views.

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Senovilla, J.M.M. Singularity Theorems and Their Consequences. General Relativity and Gravitation 30, 701–848 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018801101244

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