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Reported by the author as unresolved.

Manuscript

Contents
  1. Asymptotics of Expanding Vacuum Spacetimes Near Singularities
  2. Definitions and mathematical statement
  3. Shared notation.
  4. Definitions and conventions.
  5. Target retained from the canonical source catalogue.
  6. Catalogue wording retained for traceability.
  7. Source scope and qualification.
  8. Short English statement
  9. Research attempt
  10. Model, date and investigated scope.
  11. Sources and literature check.
  12. An exact compact Kasner benchmark.
  13. Two temporal limits.
  14. Remaining scope.
  15. Verification and adversarial audit.
  16. Tools, process and contributions.
  17. Final status and first remaining gap.
  18. Completion Estimate
  19. Sources

Asymptotics of Expanding Vacuum Spacetimes Near Singularities

Definitions and mathematical statement

Shared notation.
$\mathbb N=\{1,2,\ldots\}$; the standard number fields have their usual meanings. All additional conventions are stated locally.
Definitions and conventions.
A globally hyperbolic spacetime has Cauchy hypersurfaces crossed once by every inextendible causal curve. Vacuum means zero matter stress tensor. A constant-mean-curvature (CMC) foliation uses spatial slices on which the trace of their second fundamental form is spatially constant; its sign convention and monotone time parameter describe expansion. Compact Cauchy slices describe a spatially closed cosmological model. Past-singularity asymptotics and future expanding behavior are distinct temporal limits.
Target retained from the canonical source catalogue.
Catalogue wording retained for traceability.
For a globally hyperbolic expanding vacuum spacetime with compact Cauchy hypersurfaces and a CMC foliation, what is the asymptotic behavior as the past singularity is approached, and what is the future behavior of the spacetime?
Source scope and qualification.
The report discusses the $3+1$-dimensional setting, with some results extending further. No particular rescaled limit, topology or genericity condition is fixed by the extraction; both temporal directions remain in the research target.

Short English statement

Describe both the approach to the past singularity and the future evolution of expanding vacuum cosmologies with compact CMC slices.

Research attempt

Model, date and investigated scope.
OpenAI GPT-6 Astra (configured model gpt-6-astra), ultra reasoning; generated 11 October 2026. Verified compact Kasner vacuum/CMC solutions and their distinct past/future curvature behavior; no general asymptotic classification.
Sources and literature check.
Read the supplied definition, catalogue wording, source qualifications and reference entries for 30004803. The historical source/context and inherited status are retained; no fresh literature or novelty certification is claimed. No external theorem is used without proof in this attempt; explicit model assumptions are distinguished from facts about the source model.
An exact compact Kasner benchmark.
On $(0,\infty)\times\mathbb T^3$, take $g=-dt^2+\sum_{i=1}^3t^{2p_i}dx_i^2$ with $\sum p_i=\sum p_i^2=1$. Direct Christoffel differentiation gives $R_{00}=(\sum p_i-\sum p_i^2)/t^2=0$ and $R_{ii}=p_i(\sum p_j-1)t^{2p_i-2}=0$, with off-diagonal Ricci entries zero. Thus the metric is vacuum. In the convention $k=-\frac12\partial_tg_{\rm spatial}$, the mean curvature is $-1/t$, and the compact slice volume is its unit-coordinate volume times $t$. Its orthonormal curvature components give \[ |\operatorname{Riem}|_{\rm Lorentz}^2 =\frac4{t^4}\left[\sum_i p_i^2(p_i-1)^2+\sum_{i<j}p_i^2p_j^2\right], \] where the left side denotes the full curvature contraction in this diagonal metric. The bracket is positive except for permutations of $(1,0,0)$.
Two temporal limits.
Generic members of this family therefore have curvature blowup as $t\downarrow0$ and curvature decay as $t\to\infty$. Volume expansion does not imply expansion in every direction: the admissible triple $(-1/3,2/3,2/3)$ contracts its first circle as time increases. The exceptional flat triple also shows that the CMC parameter alone does not certify curvature blowup.
Remaining scope.
These homogeneous examples are familiar exact solutions. They do not classify inhomogeneous compact CMC vacuum cosmologies, establish future completeness for all of them, or provide a generic rescaled singular limit. The first gap is uniform control of spatial-curvature and anisotropy terms outside the homogeneous family, in both temporal directions.
Verification and adversarial audit.
Checked Ricci constraints, volume and curvature powers, the flat exceptional triple and an expanding-volume solution with a contracting direction. This is a GPT-6 Astra Ultra self-audit, not independent human verification. Prompt A drafting followed by prompt B scope/dependency/boundary self-audit. Checked Ricci constraints, volume and curvature powers, the flat exceptional triple and an expanding-volume solution with a contracting direction. The remaining gap is: Control spatial curvature and anisotropy in arbitrary compact CMC vacuum developments toward both the past and the future. Unresolved status and zero original-target completion are retained.

Coordinator checked the Kasner Ricci equations, curvature contraction and exceptional flat exponents. This additional check was model-assisted, not independent human verification.

Tools, process and contributions.
Python 3 and local file-reading/writing tools for manuscript serialization and structural checks; mathematical calculations were symbolic reasoning, with no numerical experiment or theorem prover. Contribution prompt A was followed by prompt B. GPT-6 Astra with ultra reasoning drafted the research and performed its stated self-audit; any additional coordinator contribution is identified in the verification and audit. A GPT-6-based Codex coordinator assembled the manuscript and checked repository integration; its exact variant and reasoning configuration were not exposed. No human mathematical contribution, independent human proof check or formal proof certification is supplied. Complete derivations and the consulted source references are included here; private reasoning transcripts are not published.
Final status and first remaining gap.
UNRESOLVED. Control spatial curvature and anisotropy in arbitrary compact CMC vacuum developments toward both the past and the future.

Completion Estimate

COMPLETION: 0% The proved calculation is an elementary auxiliary result or a test of a restricted strategy; no new portion of the full source target is established.

Sources

  • S1 ULAM.AI and the UnsolvedMath Contributors, UnsolvedMath, record 30004803 (OWR-8415343-006). Catalogue curation under CC BY 4.0; definitions and English exposition added locally. https://huggingface.co/datasets/ulamai/UnsolvedMath.
  • S2 Mathematical Aspects of General Relativity $2021$, Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2021/40, pp. 2157--2267. Primary report accessed 2026-10-11; relevant PDF pages 42. https://doi.org/10.4171/owr/2021/40.
  • S3 Lott, initial geometry of vacuum cosmological spacetimes (catalogue-listed context; not independently consulted in this preparation). https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02185.
  • S4 Lott, future behavior of expanding spacetimes (catalogue-listed context; not independently consulted in this preparation). https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.03952.