SEMIMETRIC SPACES IN GENERAL RELATIVITY (On Hawking-King-McCarthy's path topology)

DOI10.1070/RM1980v035n03ABEH001688zbMath0462.58004MaRDI QIDQ3913481

Otto Laback, Rudolf Z. Domiaty

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Russian Mathematical Surveys (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

time-like curves; topologies on space-time; non-Hausdorff Lorentz-manifold; path topology on Lorentz-manifolds; semi- metric spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

54D20: Noncompact covering properties (paracompact, Lindelöf, etc.)

58D30: Applications of manifolds of mappings to the sciences

83A05: Special relativity

54A10: Several topologies on one set (change of topology, comparison of topologies, lattices of topologies)

54D10: Lower separation axioms ((T_0)--(T_3), etc.)

58A99: General theory of differentiable manifolds

54E25: Semimetric spaces

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