Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2026 / iii / Paper 311 / 3 / b / ii

In two dimensions every future causal vector is a nonnegative linear combination of $k_{+}$ and $k_{-}$. The dominant energy condition is therefore equivalent to nonnegativity of $T(k_{+},k_{+})$, $T(k_{-},k_{-})$, and the mixed pairingThus the necessary and sufficient conditions are

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