Causality relations on a class of spacetimes (Q1898674)

Semi-Riemannian submersions \(\pi : M \to B\), where \(M\) is a spacetime and \(B\) is a time-oriented Lorentz surface, are natural generalizations of warped products of the form \(M = B \times_f F\). Here one requires that \(d \pi\) be an isometry on the orthogonal complement of the fibers and the fibers are assumed to be complete. In this paper, the author first studies whether causality properties of the base space \(B\) are inherited by the ambient manifold \(M\). If \(B\) is strongly causal (resp. stably causal) then \(M\) is as well. If the submersion \(\pi : M \to B\) satisfies an additional geometric condition, then gobal hyperbolicity of \(B\) implies global hyperbolicity of \(M\). The required condition is a boundedness condition on both integrability tensor of the submersion and the second fundamental form of the fibers. The author uses the above results to construct some interesting new examples of globally hyperbolic spacetimes which are timelike incomplete and satisfy the strong energy condition \(\text{Ric} (x,x) > 0\) for all timelike vectors \(x\). These submersions have totally geodesic fibers, satisfy a Yang-Mills condition, and can be constructed so as to have compact fibers.