Apply the time-reversed Penrose singularity theorem. The two past-directed null congruences orthogonal to the compact anti-trapped surface have negative expansion. The null energy condition, through the Einstein field equations, supplies the null convergence condition, and the null focusing theorem forces each generator to acquire a conjugate point within finite affine length if it can be extended that far.
If every past-directed null generator were complete, the boundary of the causal past of the surface would therefore be generated only for a bounded affine interval. Compactness of the initial surface and continuous dependence of geodesics on initial data would make that achronal boundary compact. A globally hyperbolic spacetime provides a Cauchy hypersurface and a timelike flow projecting the boundary onto it. The standard Penrose argument then makes its image both open and closed, forcing the connected Cauchy hypersurface to be compact. This contradicts its stipulated topology .
Hence at least one past-directed null generator ends after finite affine parameter: the universe is null-geodesically incomplete to the past. Global hyperbolicity controls the causal boundary, the noncompact spatial topology supplies the contradiction, and the energy condition supplies focusing.
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Let be a Cauchy hypersurface with induced metric , lapse , shift , and future unit normal . For the normalization of the action in the question, the canonical momentum density is
The equal-time canonical commutation relations are
and
With the conventional extra factor in the action, loses the factor two.
For complex classical solutions, the Klein-Gordon inner product is
The integrand is a conserved current because both fields obey the Klein-Gordon equation. Applying the divergence theorem between two Cauchy hypersurfaces shows that the value is independent of the foliation, provided there is no boundary flux.
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