The order on the light cone and its induced topology

DOI10.1142/S021988781850069XzbMATH Open1387.83010arXiv1710.05177OpenAlexW3102578544MaRDI QIDQ4635332FDOQ4635332

B. K. Papadopoulos, Santanu Acharjee, Kyriakos Papadopoulos

Publication date: 16 April 2018

Published in: International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this article we first correct a recent misconception about a topology that was suggested by Zeeman as a possible alternative to his Fine topology. This misconception appeared while trying to establish the causality in the ambient boundary-ambient space cosmological model. We then show that this topology is actually the intersection topology (in the sense of G.M. Reed) between the Euclidean topology on $mathbb{R}^4$ and the order topology whose order, namely horismos, is defined on the light cone. Last, but not least, we show that the order topology from horismos belongs to the class of Zeeman topologies. These results accelerate the need for a deeper and more systematic study of the global topological properties of spacetime manifolds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05177

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zbMATH Keywords

null coneambient cosmologyZeeman-Göbel topologiescausal ordershorismostopologization of a spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galois correspondences, closure operators (in relation to ordered sets) (06A15) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Linearly ordered topological spaces, generalized ordered spaces, and partially ordered spaces (54F05) Topological lattices, etc. (topological aspects) (54H12)

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