Cosmic Censorship in ADS/CFT

Abstract

We review recent attempts at violations of cosmic censorship in asymptotically Anti-deSitter spacetimes. The essential logic behind the potential counter-examples was that there exist smooth initial data that are guaranteed to evolve in the future to a singularity, which nonetheless are not going to be cloaked by a black hole horizon, owing to the configuration possessing insufficient energy to produce the desired black hole. We demonstrate that a refined analysis indicates that the kinematics always allows for black hole formation, thereby upholding cosmic censorship in this context.