Splitting theorems for spatially closed space-times

DOI10.1007/BF01212528zbMath0575.53040MaRDI QIDQ1064556

Gregory J. Galloway

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Cauchy surfacesingularity theoremLorentzian splitting theorempseudo-Riemannian producttimelike convergence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

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