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Past null infinity represents the boundary reached by incoming light-like rays in asymptotically flat spacetime
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Is it true that past null infinity represents the boundary reached by incoming light-like rays in asymptotically flat spacetime?
Yes. Past null infinity represents the boundary reached by incoming light-like rays in asymptotically flat spacetime according to the standard conformal compactification framework in general relativity.
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Null infinity arises as a boundary of the Penrose conformal completion of an asymptotically flat physical space-time, capturing incoming and outgoing light-like rays.
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Ashtekar, A. & Speziale, S. (2024). Null infinity as a weakly isolated horizon. peer-reviewed literature. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.110.044048
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Null infinity is divided into two sets: past null infinity and future null infinity, which serve as boundaries for incoming and outgoing null trajectories.
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MMA, M. (2024). Calculation of asymptotic charges at the critical sets of null infinity.. peer-reviewed literature. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2023.0038
Conformal compactification allows a clean definition of the infinities of General Relativity, including null infinity where light-like rays reach the boundary.
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Madler, T. & Gallo, E. (2025). Conformal compactification and affine-null metric formulation of the Einstein equations. peer-reviewed literature. https://doi.org/10.1103/nq32-qrzp
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