Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2023/iii/paper-311/2/e/solution

Suppose, for contradiction, that every future null geodesic orthogonal to the compact trapped surface extends beyond . Both families begin with expansion at most , so part d gives a point conjugate to on every generator by affine length . A generator of the achronal boundary cannot remain on that boundary beyond its first conjugate point, because afterward it can be deformed to a timelike curve from .
The two bundles of initial null directions over compact , restricted to , form a compact set. Their image under the geodesic exponential map contains all of , so this achronal boundary is compact. Project it along a complete timelike flow onto the noncompact Cauchy hypersurface . The projection is both open and closed in the connected Cauchy surface, hence would be all of ; compactness of the source would then make compact, a contradiction.
Therefore at least one orthogonal future null geodesic cannot extend to affine length . Its maximal future development is future-inextendible with total affine length
which is the incompleteness conclusion of the Penrose singularity theorem.

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