Universality of the future chronological boundary

DOI10.1063/1.532582zbMATH Open0927.53030arXivgr-qc/9704011OpenAlexW3099023620MaRDI QIDQ4701495FDOQ4701495

Authors: Steven (Stacey) G. Harris 

Publication date: 21 November 1999

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The purpose of this note is to establish, in a categorical manner, the universality of the Geroch-Kronheimer-Penrose causal boundary when considering the types of causal structures that may profitably be put on any sort of boundary for a spacetime. Actually, this can only be done for the future causal boundary (or the past causal boundary) separately; furthermore, only the chronology relation, not the causality relation, is considered, and the GKP topology is eschewed. The final result is that there is a unique map, with the proper causal properties, from the future causal boundary of a spacetime onto any ``reasonable" boundary which supports some sort of chronological structure and which purports to consist of a future completion of the spacetime. Furthermore, the future causal boundary construction is categorically unique in this regard.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9704011

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zbMATH Keywords

chronology relationGeroch-Kronheimer-Penrose causal boundarycompletion of spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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