Areas and volumes for null cones

DOI10.1007/S00023-011-0090-7zbMATH Open1218.83010arXiv1008.0524OpenAlexW3105578987WikidataQ126171557 ScholiaQ126171557MaRDI QIDQ542376FDOQ542376

Authors: James D. E. Grant 

Publication date: 10 June 2011

Published in: Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Motivated by recent work of Choquet-Bruhat, Chrusciel, and Martin-Garcia, we prove monotonicity properties and comparison results for the area of slices of the null cone of a point in a Lorentzian manifold. We also prove volume comparison results for subsets of the null cone analogous to the Bishop-Gromov relative volume monotonicity theorem and Guenther's volume comparison theorem. We briefly discuss how these estimates may be used to control the null second fundamental form of slices of the null cone in Ricci-flat Lorentzian four-manifolds with null curvature bounded above.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.0524

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

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