Smoothness of time functions and the metric splitting of globally hyperbolic spacetimes

DOI10.1007/S00220-005-1346-1zbMATH Open1081.53059arXivgr-qc/0401112OpenAlexW3099077248MaRDI QIDQ2575351FDOQ2575351

Authors: A. Bernal, Miguel Sánchez 

Publication date: 9 December 2005

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The folk questions in Lorentzian Geometry, which concerns the smoothness of time functions and slicings by Cauchy hypersurfaces, are solved by giving simple proofs of: (a) any globally hyperbolic spacetime $(M,g)$ admits a smooth time function $au$ whose levels are spacelike Cauchy hyperfurfaces and, thus, also a smooth global splitting $M=RimescalS$, $$, (b) if a spacetime $M$ admits a (continuous) time function $t$ (i.e., it is stably causal) then it admits a smooth (time) function $au$ with timelike gradient $ablaau$ on all $M$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0401112

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Hyperbolic equations on manifolds (58J45) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

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