Boundaries on spacetimes: causality, topology, and group actions

DOI10.1007/s10711-007-9168-2zbMath1126.53047OpenAlexW2084184270MaRDI QIDQ2385556

Steven (Stacey) G. Harris

Publication date: 12 October 2007

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-007-9168-2

zbMATH Keywords

boundariesgroup actionspace-timestatic space-time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Direct methods ((G)-spaces of Busemann, etc.) (53C70)

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