On null cut points in two-dimensional spacetimes

DOI10.4134/BKMS.2013.50.2.441MaRDI QIDQ2856983zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Do Hyung Kim, Byung Hak Kim

Publication date 31 October 2013

Published in Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://www.mathnet.or.kr/mathnet/kms_content.php?no=411046

zbMATH Keywords

Cauchy surfacecausalityconjugate pointscut pointssingularity theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

Review text

Conjugate points and cut points play an important role in singularity theory and causality theory.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThere are no null conjugate points in two-dimensional space-times, however, there exists a two-dimensional space-time in which every null geodesic has cut points. This space-time has compact Cauchy surfaces.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEIn the paper it is shown that for two-dimensional Lorentzian manifolds with noncompact Cauchy surfaces there exist no cut points along null geodesics.

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