Stability of B-incompleteness

\(b\)-boundary causality violation generalized affine parameter linear, torsion free, connections Lorentz metrics topologies of connections topologies of metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17) General relativity (83C99)

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The author defines a natural topology on the space of all linear, torsion free, connections. He uses the fact that the difference of any two such connections is a symmetric \({1 \choose 2}\)-tensor field and defines a basis of neighbourhoods of a connection \(\Gamma\) by taking \[ {\mathcal E}(\Omega,\Gamma) = \{\Gamma'| \{\Gamma'(x) - \Gamma(x)| x \in M\} \subset \Omega\}, \] where \(\{\Omega\}\) is a basis of neighbourhoods of the zero section in the \(({1\atop 2})\)-tensor bundle. This induces a topology on the space of Lorentz metrics (For any Lorentz metric \(g\) let \(\Gamma^ g\) be the associated Levi-Civita connection. A typical neighbourhood of \(g\) is of the form \(\{g'\mid \Gamma^{g'} \in {\mathcal E}(\Omega,\Gamma^ g)\})\). He then considers a curve \(\gamma: [t_ 0,T) \to M\) which either has two endpoints or has the property that for all \(p \in M\) there exists a neighbourhood \(U\) and a \(t_ 1 \in [t_ 0,T)\) such that \(U\cap \gamma([t_ 1,T)) = \emptyset\). He shows that for any Lorentz metric \(g\) there exists a neighborhood of \(g\) such that either \(\gamma\) is \(b\)-bounded with respect to all metrics in this neighbourhood or \(\gamma\) is not \(b\)-bounded with respect to any such metric. He does not give an example why his assumption on \(\gamma\) should be necessary.

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