Cosmic censorship conjecture - status?

[martinbn]

What is the current status of the conjecture? I am interested in all possible aspects, counterexamples, attempts to formulate it in a mathematically rigorous way, proves in special cases, opinions, expectations and so on. Of course I have been trying to find information and have seen some things but the searches give a lot of useless links so I was wondering if anyone knows where to look. Overview articles would be great, the one that I am aware of is Penrose (1999).

 

[bcrowell]

I posted a question on physics.SE about this: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/61118/overcharging-a-black-hole The question is not as broad as yours, and it summarizes what I know about the current state of research in the narrower area I'm asking about. I posted some notes here https://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=3445316&postcount=8 about the Poisson talk from a couple of years ago.

 

[martinbn]

Yes, I saw it, and it made me curious about the conjecture, for which I have only a very general and vague idea. Your question is specific and very interesting, and I hope someone will answer it. I remember the thread here that you started, then I was also trying to find some general information but gave up. Now I thought I would ask.

 

[Haelfix]

Cosmic censorship might not hold in d > 4. The Gregory-Laflamme instability is believed to be a potential counterexample.

 

[bcrowell]

Self-force as a cosmic censor
Peter Zimmerman, Ian Vega, Eric Poisson, Roland Haas
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3889