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

DOI10.1007/S00220-005-1346-1MaRDI QIDQ2575351zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Bernal, Miguel Sánchez

Publication date 9 December 2005

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

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

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)

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 $M$.

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