On null geodesically complete spacetimes under NEC and NGC: Is the Gao‐Wald “time dilation” a topological effect?

DOI10.1002/MMA.5956MaRDI QIDQ3305091zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kyriakos Papadopoulos

Publication date 5 August 2020

Published in Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.12123

zbMATH Keywords

Alexandrov topologyclosed diamondscompactnessGao-Wald gravitational ``time delaynull energy condition (NEC)null generic condition (NGC)null geodesic completenessstrong causalityZeeman-Göbel topologies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Topological characterizations of particular spaces (54F65) Topological properties of groups of homeomorphisms or diffeomorphisms (57S05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We review a theorem of Gao-Wald on a kind of a gravitational "time delay" effect in null geodesically complete spacetimes under NEC and NGC, and we observe that it is not valid anymore throughout its statement, as well as a conclusion that there is a class of cosmological models where particle horizons are absent, if one substituted the manifold topology with a finer (spacetime-) topology. Since topologies of the Zeeman-G"obel class incorporate the causal, differential and conformal structure of a spacetime, and there are serious mathematical arguments in favour of such topologies and against the manifold topology, there is a strong evidence that "time dilation" theorems of this kind are topological in nature rather than having a particular physical meaning.

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