Global decomposition of a Lorentzian manifold as a generalized Robertson-Walker space

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2008.06.015MaRDI QIDQ1002012zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Manuel Gutiérrez, Benjamín Olea

Publication date 20 February 2009

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0701067

zbMATH Keywords

closed and conformal vector fieldgeneralized Robertson-Walker spaceisometric decompositionlightlike sectional curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80)

Abstract: Generalized Robertson-Walker (GRW) spaces constitute a quite important family in Lorentzian geometry, and it is an interesting question to know whether a Lorentzian manifold can be decomposed in such a way. It is well known that the existence of a suitable vector field guaranties the local decomposition of the manifold. In this paper, we give conditions on the curvature which ensure a global decomposition and apply them to several situations where local decomposition appears naturally. We also study the uniqueness question, obtaining that the de Sitter spaces are the only non trivial complete Lorentzian manifolds with more than one GRW decomposition. Moreover, we show that the Friedmann Cosmological Models admit an unique GRW decomposition, even locally.

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