Möbius structures and timed causal spaces on the circle

DOI10.1090/SPMJ/1513zbMATH Open1473.51003arXiv1705.00478OpenAlexW2964039382MaRDI QIDQ4580439FDOQ4580439

Authors: Sergei V. Buyalo 

Publication date: 15 August 2018

Published in: St. Petersburg Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We discuss a conjectural duality between hyperbolic spaces on one hand and spacetimes on the other hand, living on the opposite sides of the common absolute. This duality goes via M"obius structures on the absolute, and it is easily recognized in the classical case of symmetric rank one spaces. In a general case, no trace of such duality is known. As a first step in this direction, we show how M"obius structures on the circle from a large class including those which stem from hyperbolic spaces give rise to 2-dimensional spacetimes, which are axiomatic versions of de Sitter 2-space, and vice versa. The paper has two Appendices, one of which is written by V.Schroeder.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.00478

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zbMATH Keywords

de Sitter spacehyperbolic spacesspacetimescross-ratioMöbius structuresharmonic 4-tuple

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Möbius geometries (51B10)

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