Boundaries on spacetimes: causality, topology, and group actions (Q2385556): Difference between revisions

The future causal boundary on a space-time serves to explicate the causal behavior of the space-time at future infinity. The purely causal nature of this boundary has a categorically universal nature, the category being that of chronological sets. There is an associated topology with any chronological set, replicating the appropriate topology for a space-time. Adding the future causal boundary (and using this topology) provides a quasi-compactification. The boundary for a product space-time \(M\times L^1\) can be detailed in terms of the Riemannian factor \(M\).