The results on strong cosmic censorship in Gowdy vacuum spacetimes cover the polarized sub-case as well as the general T3-Gowdy case. However, to the best of our knowledge, there are no results concerning strong cosmic censorship in the general S3 and S2 × S1 cases. The method of proof, in all the situations in which results exist, consists of a detailed analysis of the asymptotics of solutions. As a consequence, we shall devote most of this review to a description of the analysis of the asymptotic behavior. Note that it might be possible to prove strong cosmic censorship without analyzing the asymptotics in detail. In fact, there are proofs under related symmetry assumptions, which are not based on a detailed analysis of the asymptotics [25, 26, 27, 84].
The existence of asymptotic expansions in the direction towards the singularity has played a central
role in proving strong cosmic censorship for T3 and polarized vacuum Gowdy spacetimes. In
the latter case, to take one example, there is a computation of asymptotic expansions due to
Isenberg and Moncrief [50]. This computation was then used in [21
] in the proof of strong
cosmic censorship in the polarized case. In the general T3-case, there is a large literature on
asymptotic expansions, which we shall return to in Section 8; the starting point being the work of
Grubišić and Moncrief [40
]. It is worth noting that both in the case of [40
] and [50
], the ideas of
Belinskii, Khalatnikov, and Lifshitz [55, 6, 7] (henceforth BKL) played an important role. As a
consequence, we wish to give a brief description of the BKL perspective as well as of some related
proposals.
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