Global hyperbolicity of sliced spaces

DOI10.1023/B:GERG.0000018284.43552.2FMaRDI QIDQ1878350zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Spiros Cotsakis

Publication date 19 August 2004

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0309048

zbMATH Keywords

completenessgeodesic completenessglobally hyperbolic spacetimesslicing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Symplectic structures of moduli spaces (53D30) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10)

Abstract: We show that for generic sliced spacetimes global hyperbolicity is equivalent to space completeness under the assumption that the lapse, shift and spatial metric are uniformly bounded. This leads us to the conclusion that simple sliced spaces are timelike and null geodesically complete if and only if space is a complete Riemannian manifold.

Review text

The paper discusses the connection between global hyperbolicity and space completeness. It is shown that for sliced spaces with uniformly bounded lapse, shift and spatial metric, global hyperbolicity and completeness are equivalent. If the spacetime is additionally trivial, i.e. lapse and shift are constant and the spatial metric is time-independent, it is also equivalent that the spacetime is timelike and null geodesically complete.

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