Ricci fall-off in static and stationary, globally hyperbolic, non-singular spacetimes

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/14/1/015MaRDI QIDQ4332175zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors David Garfinkle, Steven (Stacey) G. Harris

Publication date 21 July 1997

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9511050

zbMATH Keywords

Ricci curvatureglobally hyperbolic spacetimesstatic and stationary spacetimes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

Abstract: What restrictions are there on a spacetime for which the Ricci curvature is such as to produce convergence of geodesics (such as the preconditions for the Singularity Theorems) but for which there are no singularities? We answer this question for a restricted class of spacetimes: static, geodesically complete, and globally hyperbolic. The answer is that, in at least one spacelike direction, the Ricci curvature must fall off at a rate inversely quadratic in a naturally-occurring Riemannian metric on the space of static observers. Along the way, we establish some global results on the static observer space, regarding its completeness and its behavior with respect to universal covering spaces.

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