Conformally embedded spacetimes and the space of null geodesics

DOI10.1007/S00220-019-03499-0zbMATH Open1437.53053arXiv1901.00432OpenAlexW2907557271WikidataQ127577932 ScholiaQ127577932MaRDI QIDQ2174659FDOQ2174659

Authors: Jakob Hedicke, Stefan Suhr 

Publication date: 21 April 2020

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

Abstract: It is shown that the space of null geodesics of a causally simple Lorentzian manifold is Hausdorff if it admits an open conformal embedding into a globally hyperbolic spacetime. This provides an obstruction to conformal embeddings of causally simple spacetimes into globally hyperbolic ones irrespective of curvature conditions. Examples of causally simple spacetimes are given not conformally embeddable into globally hyperbolic ones.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00432

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Spaces of embeddings and immersions (58D10) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20)

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