On the existence of smooth Cauchy steep time functions

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/33/11/115001zbMATH Open1341.83005arXiv1601.05932OpenAlexW3102998500MaRDI QIDQ5741269FDOQ5741269

Authors: E. Minguzzi 

Publication date: 22 July 2016

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

Abstract: A simple proof is given that every globally hyperbolic spacetime admits a smooth Cauchy steep time function. This result is useful in order to show that globally hyperbolic spacetimes can be isometrically embedded in Minkowski spacetimes and that they spit as a product. The proof is based on a recent result on the differentiability of Geroch's volume functions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.05932

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zbMATH Keywords

Cauchy hypersurfaceglobal hyperbolicitytime function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Special relativity (83A05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75)

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