On differentiability of volume time functions

DOI10.1007/S00023-015-0448-3MaRDI QIDQ331475zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors James D. E. Grant, E. Minguzzi, Piotr T. Chrúsciel

Publication date 27 October 2016

Published in Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.2909

zbMATH Keywords

differentiabilityglobally hyperbolic manifoldscausal curvesGeroch's volume functionHawking's time functionLipschitz time functionslocal anti-Lipschitz conditionvolume time functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

Abstract: We show differentiability of a class of Geroch's volume functions on globally hyperbolic manifolds. Furthermore, we prove that every volume function satisfies a local anti-Lipschitz condition over causal curves, and that locally Lipschitz time functions which are locally anti-Lipschitz can be uniformly approximated by smooth time functions with timelike gradient. Finally, we prove that in stably causal spacetimes Hawking's time function can be uniformly approximated by smooth time functions with timelike gradient.

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