Cosmic censorship of smooth structures

DOI10.1007/S00220-013-1686-1MaRDI QIDQ1955823zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 19 June 2013

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.6070

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: It is observed that on many 4-manifolds there is a unique smooth structure underlying a globally hyperbolic Lorentz metric. For instance, every contractible smooth 4-manifold admitting a globally hyperbolic Lorentz metric is diffeomorphic to the standard $R^4$. Similarly, a smooth 4-manifold homeomorphic to the product of a closed oriented 3-manifold $N$ and $R$ and admitting a globally hyperbolic Lorentz metric is in fact diffeomorphic to $NimesR$. Thus one may speak of a censorship imposed by the global hyperbolicty assumption on the possible smooth structures on $(3+1)$-dimensional spacetimes.

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