A conformal Hopf-Rinow theorem for semi-Riemannian spacetimes

DOI10.1016/J.INDAG.2025.01.004MaRDI QIDQ7238625zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Annegret Y. Burtscher

Publication date 8 May 2026

Published in Indagationes Mathematicae. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/J.INDAG.2025.01.004

zbMATH Keywords

causality theorycompletenesscone structureconformal structureglobal hyperbolicityHopf-Rinow theoremmetric geometrynull distanceparallelizabilitysemi-Riemannian manifoldsspacetimestangent frametime functionsvector fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry (53-XX) Global analysis, analysis on manifolds (58-XX)

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