Maximum principles for null hypersurfaces and null splitting theorems

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Abstract: A maximum principle for C^0 null hypersurfaces is obtained and used to derive a splitting theorem for spacetimes which contain null lines. As a consequence of this null splitting theorem, it is proved that an asymptotically simple vacuum (Ricci flat) spacetime which contains a null line is isometric to Minkowski space.


The author studies first the maximum principle for smooth null hypersurfaces and then the maximum principle for \(C^0\) null hypersurfaces with application to the study of some rigidity properties of space-times which contain null lines. He shows how the maximum principle for rough null hypersurfaces can be used to obtain a general ``splitting theorem for space-times with null lines.




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