Further properties of causal relationship: causal structure stability, new criteria for isocausality and counterexamples

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/22/21/009zbMATH Open1087.83006arXivmath-ph/0507014OpenAlexW3121315934WikidataQ124843256 ScholiaQ124843256MaRDI QIDQ3372767FDOQ3372767

Authors: Alfonso García-Parrado Gómez-Lobo, Miguel Sánchez 

Publication date: 10 March 2006

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Recently ({em Class. Quant. Grav.} {�f 20} 625-664) the concept of {em causal mapping} between spacetimes --essentially equivalent in this context to the {em chronological map} one in abstract chronological spaces--, and the related notion of {em causal structure}, have been introduced as new tools to study causality in Lorentzian geometry. In the present paper, these tools are further developed in several directions such as: (i) causal mappings --and, thus, abstract chronological ones-- do not preserve two levels of the standard hierarchy of causality conditions (however, they preserve the remaining levels as shown in the above reference), (ii) even though global hyperbolicity is a stable property (in the set of all time-oriented Lorentzian metrics on a fixed manifold), the causal structure of a globally hyperbolic spacetime can be unstable against perturbations; in fact, we show that the causal structures of Minkowski and Einstein static spacetimes remain stable, whereas that of de Sitter becomes unstable, (iii) general criteria allow us to discriminate different causal structures in some general spacetimes (e.g. globally hyperbolic, stationary standard); in particular, there are infinitely many different globally hyperbolic causal structures (and thus, different conformal ones) on $R^2$, (iv) plane waves with the same number of positive eigenvalues in the frequency matrix share the same causal structure and, thus, they have equal causal extensions and causal boundaries.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0507014

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

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