Gromov, Cauchy and causal boundaries for Riemannian, Finslerian and Lorentzian manifolds

DOI10.1090/S0065-9266-2013-00680-6zbMATH Open1296.53087arXiv1011.1154OpenAlexW2963298244MaRDI QIDQ4979136FDOQ4979136

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Publication date: 17 June 2014

Published in: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Recently, the old notion of causal boundary for a spacetime V has been redefined in a consistent way. The computation of this boundary $partialV$ for a standard conformally stationary spacetime V = R x M, suggests a natural compactification $M_B$ associated to any Riemannian metric on M or, more generally, to any Finslerian one. The corresponding boundary $partia{l}_{B}M$ is constructed in terms of Busemann-type functions. Roughly, $partia{l}_{B}M$ represents the set of all the directions in M including both, asymptotic and "finite" (or "incomplete") directions. This Busemann boundary $partia{l}_{B}M$ is related to two classical boundaries: the Cauchy boundary and the Gromov boundary. Our aims are: (1) to study the subtleties of both, the Cauchy boundary for any generalized (possibly non-symmetric) distance and the Gromov compactification for any (possibly incomplete) Finsler manifold, (2) to introduce the new Busemann compactification $M_B$, relating it with the previous two completions, and (3) to give a full description of the causal boundary $partialV$ of any standard conformally stationary spacetime.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.1154

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zbMATH Keywords

Busemann functioncausal boundaryBusemann boundaryGromov compactification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

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