Legendrian links, causality, and the low conjecture

DOI10.1007/S00039-009-0039-XzbMATH Open1186.83013arXiv0810.5091OpenAlexW3100142664WikidataQ123019753 ScholiaQ123019753MaRDI QIDQ2269895FDOQ2269895

Authors: Yanyan Li 

Publication date: 12 March 2010

Published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $(X^{m+1},g)$ be a globally hyperbolic spacetime with Cauchy surface diffeomorphic to an open subset of $mathbb{R}^m$. The Legendrian Low conjecture formulated by Nat'ario and Tod says that two events $x,yinss$ are causally related if and only if the Legendrian link of spheres $mathfrak{S}_x,mathfrak{S}_y$ whose points are light geodesics passing through $x$ and $y$ is non-trivial in the contact manifold of all light geodesics in $X$. The Low conjecture says that for $m=2$ the events $x,y$ are causally related if and only if $mathfrak{S}_x,mathfrak{S}_y$ is non-trivial as a topological link. We prove the Low and the Legendrian Low conjectures. We also show that similar statements hold for any globally hyperbolic $(X^{m+1},g)$ such that a cover of its Cauchy surface is diffeomorphic to an open domain in $mathbb{R}^m.$

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.5091

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zbMATH Keywords

causalitygenerating functionsCauchy surfacehodograph transformationLegendrian linksnull geodesicglobally hyperbolic space-time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

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