On flat complete causal Lorentzian manifolds (Q2490380)

The authors study flat, geodesically complete Lorentzian manifolds, which are causal, i.e., do not contain closed time-like curves, and have the property that the past and future of any point are closed near this point. They call this condition strict causality. In their main result the authors describe, up to finite coverings, flat, complete and strictly causal Lorentzian manifolds. In particular they show, that the fundamental group of such a manifold is virtually Abelian. They also show that in dimension \(4\), there is, up to a scaling factor, only one such manifold, which is not globally hyperbolic. This exceptional example is studied in detail.