The causal ladder and the strength of K -causality: II

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/25/1/015010MaRDI QIDQ5437644zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors E. Minguzzi

Publication date 21 January 2008

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0703128

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special relativity (83A05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: Hawking's stable causality implies Sorkin and Woolgar's K-causality. The work investigates the possible equivalence between the two causality requirements, an issue which was first considered by H. Seifert and then raised again by R. Low after the introduction of K-causality. First, a new proof is given that a spacetime is stably causal iff the Seifert causal relation is a partial order. It is then shown that given a K-causal spacetime and chosen an event, the light cones can be widened in a neighborhood of the event without spoiling K-causality. The idea is that this widening of the light cones can be continued leading to a global one. Unfortunately, due to some difficulties in the inductive process the author was not able to complete the program for a proof as originally conceived by H. Seifert. Nevertheless, it is proved that if K-causality coincides with stable causality then in any K-causal spacetime the K future coincides with the Seifert future. Explicit examples are provided which show that the K^+ future may differ from the Seifert relation in causal spacetimes.

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