The cosmological time functions and lightlike rays

DOI10.1007/S41980-021-00591-XMaRDI QIDQ2169261zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fatemeh Koohestani, Neda Ebrahimi, M. Vatandoost, Y. Bahrampour

Publication date 2 September 2022

Published in Bulletin of the Iranian Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.07549

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological time functionglobally hyperbolicLorentzian metricspace-time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25)

Abstract: It is proved that all discontinuity points of a finite cosmological time function, $au$, are on past lightlike rays. As a result, it is proved that if $(M,g)$ is a chronological space-time without past lightlike rays then there is a representation of $g$ such that its cosmological time function is regular. In addition, by reducing conditions of regularity sufficient conditions for causal simplicity and causal pseudoconvexity of space-time is given. It is also proved that the second condition of regularity can be reduced to satisfies only on inextendible past-directed causal rays if $(M,g)$ be a space-time, conformal with an open subspace of Minkowski space-time or $au$ be continuous.

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