Class A spacetimes

DOI10.1007/S10711-011-9671-3MaRDI QIDQ715187zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stefan Suhr

Publication date 2 November 2012

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.4200

zbMATH Keywords

space-time geometryspace-time topologyLorentzian distance function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

Abstract: We introduce class A spacetimes, i.e. compact vicious spacetimes $(M,g)$ such that the Abelian cover $$ is globally hyperbolic. We study the main properties of class A spacetimes using methods similar to the one introduced in D. Sullivan "Cycles for the dynamical study of foliated manifolds and complex manifolds" (Invent. Math.,36, 225-255 (1976)) and D. Yu. Burago "Periodic metrics" (Representation theory and dynamical systems (Adv. Soviet Math.), 9, 205-210 (1992)). As a consequence we are able to characterize manifolds admitting class A metrics completely as mapping tori. Further we show that the notion of class A spacetime is equivalent to that of SCTP (spacially compact time-periodic) spacetimes as introduced in Galloway "Splitting theorems for spatially closed spacetimes" (Comm Math Phys 96:423-429, 1984). The set of class A spacetimes is shown to be open in the $C^0$-topology on the set of Lorentzian metrics. As an application we prove a coarse Lipschitz property for the time separation of the Abelian cover. This coarse Lipschitz property is an essential part in the study of Aubry-Mather theory in Lorentzian geometry.

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