The cosmological time function

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/15/2/006zbMath0911.53039arXivgr-qc/9709084MaRDI QIDQ4219788

Gregory J. Galloway, Lars Andersson, Ralph Howard

Publication date: 10 November 1998

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9709084

zbMATH Keywords

globally hyperbolic; Lorentzian distance; initial singularity; cosmological time function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

83F05: Relativistic cosmology

83C05: Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems)

83C75: Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc.

53C50: Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics

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