On flat complete causal Lorentzian manifolds

DOI10.1007/S10711-005-7574-XMaRDI QIDQ2490380zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors O. S. Morozov, Victor Gichev

Publication date 2 May 2006

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0508633

zbMATH Keywords

affine manifoldcausal manifoldflat complete Lorentzian manifoldstrictly causal

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

Abstract: We describe up to finite coverings causal flat affine complete Lorentzian manifolds such that the past and the future of any point are closed near this point. We say that these manifolds are strictly causal. In particular, we prove that their fundamental groups are virtually abelian. In dimension 4, there is only one, up to a scaling factor, strictly causal manifold which is not globally hyperbolic. For a generic point of this manifold, either the past or the future is not closed and contains a lightlike straight line.

Review text

The authors study flat, geodesically complete Lorentzian manifolds, which are causal, i.e., do not contain closed time-like curves, and have the property that the past and future of any point are closed near this point. They call this condition strict causality. In their main result the authors describe, up to finite coverings, flat, complete and strictly causal Lorentzian manifolds. In particular they show, that the fundamental group of such a manifold is virtually Abelian. They also show that in dimension \(4\), there is, up to a scaling factor, only one such manifold, which is not globally hyperbolic. This exceptional example is studied in detail.

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