A synthetic null energy condition (Q6153511): Difference between revisions

From both the mathematical and physical points of view, a nonsmooth theory of gravity which relaxes or replaces the smooth manifolds required by Einstein's relativity appears highly desirable. The relationship between such a theory and Lorentzian geometry is analogous to the relationship of metric or metric measure geometry to the classical theory of smooth Riemannian manifolds. Several key steps in this direction have already been taken. Striking among them are the axiomatization of a theory of Lorentzian length spaces and sectional curvature bounds. In this paper, the author proposes a new nonsmooth null energy-dimension condition, and shows it is consistent with the classical null energy conditions in the setting of smooth globally hyperbolic Lorentzian spacetimes.