{"title":"A revisit to classical and quantum aspects of Raychaudhuri equation and possible resolution of singularity","authors":"Subenoy Chakraborty, Madhukrishna Chakraborty","doi":"10.1142/s0219887824400188","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this review, we provide a concrete overview of the Raychaudhuri equation, Focusing Theorem and convergence conditions in a plethora of backgrounds and discuss the consequences. We also present various classical and quantum approaches suggested in the literature that could potentially mitigate the initial big-bang singularity and the black-hole singularity.</p>","PeriodicalId":50320,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1000,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics","FirstCategoryId":"101","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s0219887824400188","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"PHYSICS, MATHEMATICAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In this review, we provide a concrete overview of the Raychaudhuri equation, Focusing Theorem and convergence conditions in a plethora of backgrounds and discuss the consequences. We also present various classical and quantum approaches suggested in the literature that could potentially mitigate the initial big-bang singularity and the black-hole singularity.
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This journal publishes short communications, research and review articles devoted to all applications of geometric methods (including commutative and non-commutative Differential Geometry, Riemannian Geometry, Finsler Geometry, Complex Geometry, Lie Groups and Lie Algebras, Bundle Theory, Homology an Cohomology, Algebraic Geometry, Global Analysis, Category Theory, Operator Algebra and Topology) in all fields of Mathematical and Theoretical Physics, including in particular: Classical Mechanics (Lagrangian, Hamiltonian, Poisson formulations); Quantum Mechanics (also semi-classical approximations); Hamiltonian Systems of ODE''s and PDE''s and Integrability; Variational Structures of Physics and Conservation Laws; Thermodynamics of Systems and Continua (also Quantum Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics); General Relativity and other Geometric Theories of Gravitation; geometric models for Particle Physics; Supergravity and Supersymmetric Field Theories; Classical and Quantum Field Theory (also quantization over curved backgrounds); Gauge Theories; Topological Field Theories; Strings, Branes and Extended Objects Theory; Holography; Quantum Gravity, Loop Quantum Gravity and Quantum Cosmology; applications of Quantum Groups; Quantum Computation; Control Theory; Geometry of Chaos.