Which spacetimes admit conformal compactifications?

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2016.V20.N5.A5MaRDI QIDQ514230zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yong-Cai Geng, Sumit K. Garg

Publication date 28 February 2017

Published in Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.8136

zbMATH Keywords

conformal compactificationsconformal extensionsfuture causal boundaryspacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We consider the future causal boundary as a tool to find obstructions to conformal extensions, the latter being a slight generalization to conformal compactifications.

Cited in

(5)

• Black holes in Einstein-Maxwell theory
• Hausdorff closed limits and the c-boundary. I: A new topology for the c-completion of spacetimes
• Hausdorff closed limits and the c -boundary II: null infinity and black holes
• Addendum to ‘Hausdorff closed limits and the c-boundary I: a new topology for the c-completion of spacetimes’
• Topologies on the future causal completion

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