Light Rays, Singularities, and All That
by Edward Witten
Publisher: arXiv.org 2019
Number of pages: 105
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This article is an introduction to causal properties of General Relativity. Topics include the Raychaudhuri equation, singularity theorems of Penrose and Hawking, the black hole area theorem, topological censorship, and the Gao-Wald theorem.
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