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Past incompleteness of the expanding flat slicing of de Sitter spacetime

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The geodesic with nonzero conserved spatial momentum reaches t=−∞ after the finite past proper time
τ−​=−2H1​log1+v02​​−11+v02​​+1​.
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This is incompleteness of the expanding coordinate patch, whose geodesics extend smoothly in global de Sitter spacetime; it is not a curvature singularity.

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  • Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2018 / ii / Paper 1 / 37E / d / Solution

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