Global hyperbolicity for spacetimes with continuous metrics

DOI10.1007/S00023-015-0425-XzbMATH Open1342.83014arXiv1412.2408OpenAlexW3099693477MaRDI QIDQ295524FDOQ295524

C. Sämann

Publication date: 13 June 2016

Published in: Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that the definition of global hyperbolicity in terms of the compactness of the causal diamonds and non-total imprisonment can be extended to spacetimes with continuous metrics, while retaining all of the equivalences to other notions of global hyperbolicity. In fact, global hyperbolicity is equivalent to the compactness of the space of causal curves and to the existence of a Cauchy hypersurface. Furthermore, global hyperbolicity implies causal simplicity, stable causality and the existence of maximal curves connecting any two causally related points.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.2408

zbMATH Keywords

compactnessCauchy hypersurfacecausal diamondscausal simplicitycontinuous metricsglobal hyperbolicityimprisonmentspacetimesstable causality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Topological characterizations of particular spaces (54F65)

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