The future is not always open

DOI10.1007/S11005-019-01213-8MaRDI QIDQ2300911zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors James D. E. Grant, C. Sämann, Roland Steinbauer, Michael Kunzinger

Publication date 28 February 2020

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.07996

zbMATH Keywords

causal bubblescausality theorychronological futurelow regularity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

Abstract: We demonstrate the breakdown of several fundamentals of Lorentzian causality theory in low regularity. Most notably, chronological futures (defined naturally using locally Lipschitz curves) may be non-open, and may differ from the corresponding sets defined via piecewise $C^1$-curves. By refining the notion of a causal bubble from [CG:12],we characterize spacetimes for which such phenomena can occur, and also relate these to the possibility of deforming causal curves of positive length into timelike curves (push-up). The phenomena described here are, in particular, relevant for recent synthetic approaches to low regularity Lorentzian geometry where, in the absence of a differentiable structure, causality has to be based on locally Lipschitz curves.

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