Maximal extension of conformally flat globally hyperbolic space-times

DOI10.1007/S10711-014-0015-YzbMATH Open1309.83020arXiv1306.3753OpenAlexW2159730778MaRDI QIDQ2256263FDOQ2256263

Authors: Clara Rossi Salvemini 

Publication date: 19 February 2015

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The notion of maximal extension of a globally hyperbolic space-time arises from the notion of maximal solutions of the Cauchy problem associated to the Einstein's equations of general relativity. In 1969 Choquet-Bruhat and Geroch proved that if the Cauchy problem has a local solution, this solution has a unique maximal extension. Since the causal structure of a space-time is invariant under conformal changes of metrics we may generalize this notion of maximality to the conformal setting. In this article we focus on conformally flat space-times of dimension greater or equal than 3. In this case, by a Lorentzian version of Liouville theorem, these space-times are locally modeled on the Einstein space-time. In the first part we use this fact to prove the existence and uniqueness of the maximum extension for globally hyperbolic conformally flat space-times. In the second part we find a causal characterization of globally hyperbolic conformally flat maximal space-times whose developing map is a global diffeomorphism.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.3753

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zbMATH Keywords

space-timesconformal geometryLorentzian geometryglobally hyperbolic\((GX)\)-structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20)

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