On differentiability of volume time functions

DOI10.1007/S00023-015-0448-3zbMATH Open1351.83006arXiv1301.2909OpenAlexW1918118557MaRDI QIDQ331475FDOQ331475

Piotr T. Chrúsciel, E. Minguzzi, James D. E. Grant

Publication date: 27 October 2016

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

Abstract: We show differentiability of a class of Geroch's volume functions on globally hyperbolic manifolds. Furthermore, we prove that every volume function satisfies a local anti-Lipschitz condition over causal curves, and that locally Lipschitz time functions which are locally anti-Lipschitz can be uniformly approximated by smooth time functions with timelike gradient. Finally, we prove that in stably causal spacetimes Hawking's time function can be uniformly approximated by smooth time functions with timelike gradient.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.2909

zbMATH Keywords

differentiabilityglobally hyperbolic manifoldscausal curvesGeroch's volume functionHawking's time functionLipschitz time functionslocal anti-Lipschitz conditionvolume time functions

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)

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