A note on the causal homotopy classes of a globally hyperbolic spacetime

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/32/19/197001MaRDI QIDQ3453202zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pablo Morales Álvarez, Miguel Sánchez

Publication date 20 November 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.02376

zbMATH Keywords

causalityglobally hyperbolic spacetimehomotopy classesLorentzian geometrycontinuous causal curvespaces of causal curvestopological tools in relativity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Topological characterizations of particular spaces (54F65)

Abstract: Globally hyperbolic spacetimes admitting infinitely many causal (and timelike) homotopy classes of curves joining two prescribed points, are exhibited and discussed.

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• Globally hyperbolic spacetimes: slicings, boundaries and counterexamples
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