Special temporal functions on globally hyperbolic manifolds

DOI10.1007/s11005-012-0591-4zbMath1267.53074arXiv0904.1599MaRDI QIDQ1946615

Olaf Müller

Publication date: 15 April 2013

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.1599

zbMATH Keywords

Lorentzian manifold; globally hyperbolic manifold; foliation by Cauchy surfaces; temporal function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C50: Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics

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