K -causality and degenerate spacetimes

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/17/21/303zbMATH Open1037.83010arXivgr-qc/9912090OpenAlexW3104654860MaRDI QIDQ4528043FDOQ4528043

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Publication date: 2000

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

Abstract: The causal relation $K^{+}$ was introduced by Sorkin and Woolgar to extend the standard causal analysis of $C^2$ spacetimes to those that are only $C^0$. Most of their results also hold true in the case of spacetimes with degeneracies. In this paper we seek to examine $K^{+}$ explicitly in the case of Lorentzian topology changing Morse spacetimes containing isolated degeneracies. We first demonstrate some interesting features of this relation in globally Lorentzian spacetimes. In particular, we show that $K^{+}$ is robust and that it coincides with the Seifert relation when the spacetime is stably causal. Moreover, the Hawking and Sachs characterisation of causal continuity translates into a natural expression in terms of $K^{+}$ for general spacetimes. We then examine $K^{+}$ in topology changing Morse spacetimes both with and without the degeneracies and find further characterisations of causal continuity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9912090

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zbMATH Keywords

topology changecausal continuitydegenerate spacetimesK-causalityMorse histories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

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