The chart based approach to studying the global structure of a spacetime induces a coordinate invariant boundary

DOI10.1007/S10714-013-1624-8MaRDI QIDQ2447463zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ben E. Whale

Publication date 25 April 2014

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.1287

zbMATH Keywords

boundarychartconstructionglobalstructure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15) Embeddings in differential topology (57R40) Special relativity (83A05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

Abstract: I demonstrate that the chart based approach to the study of the global structure of Lorentzian manifolds induces a homeomorphism of the manifold into a topological space as an open dense set. The topological boundary of this homeomorphism is a chart independent boundary of ideal points equipped with a topological structure and a physically motivated classification. I show that this new boundary contains all other boundaries that can be presented as the topological boundary of an envelopment. Hence, in particular, it is a generalisation of Penrose's conformal boundary. I provide three detailed examples: the conformal compactification of Minkowski spacetime, Scott and Szekeres' analysis of the Curzon singularity and Beyer and Hennig's analysis of smooth Gowdy symmetric generalised Taub-NUT spacetimes.

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