Abstract: We give a simplified approach to Kunzinger & Saemann's theory of Lorentzian length spaces in the globally hyperbolic, regularly localizable case; these provide a nonsmooth framework for general relativity. We close a gap in this setting, by showing consistency of two potentially different notions of timelike geodesic segments used in the literature. We propose a nonsmooth reformulation of Penrose' null energy condition in terms of the timelike curvature-dimension conditions of Cavalletti & Mondino (and Braun), and discuss its consistency and stability properties. This yields new insights even in the smooth setting.
From both the mathematical and physical points of view, a nonsmooth theory of gravity which relaxes or replaces the smooth manifolds required by Einstein's relativity appears highly desirable. The relationship between such a theory and Lorentzian geometry is analogous to the relationship of metric or metric measure geometry to the classical theory of smooth Riemannian manifolds. Several key steps in this direction have already been taken. Striking among them are the axiomatization of a theory of Lorentzian length spaces and sectional curvature bounds. In this paper, the author proposes a new nonsmooth null energy-dimension condition, and shows it is consistent with the classical null energy conditions in the setting of smooth globally hyperbolic Lorentzian spacetimes.
Recommendations
- Null distance and convergence of Lorentzian length spaces
- Characterization of the null energy condition via displacement convexity of entropy
- Lorentzian length spaces
- A review of Lorentzian synthetic theory of timelike Ricci curvature bounds
- Optimal transport in Lorentzian synthetic spaces, synthetic timelike Ricci curvature lower bounds and applications
Cites work
- A Bakry-Émery almost splitting result with applications to the topology of black holes
- A course in metric geometry
- A Lorentzian Gromov–Hausdorff notion of distance
- A new topology on the space of Lorentzian metrics on a fixed manifold
- A review of Lorentzian synthetic theory of timelike Ricci curvature bounds
- An optimal transport formulation of the Einstein equations of general relativity
- Causality for nonlocal phenomena
- Comparison and rigidity theorems in semi-Riemannian geometry
- Convergence of pointed non-compact metric measure spaces and stability of Ricci curvature bounds and heat flows
- Cosmological singularity theorems and splitting theorems for N-Bakry-Émery spacetimes
- Curvature measures of pseudo-Riemannian manifolds
- Displacement convexity of Boltzmann's entropy characterizes the strong energy condition from general relativity
- Distribution-valued Ricci bounds for metric measure spaces, singular time changes, and gradient estimates for Neumann heat flows
- Further observations on the definition of global hyperbolicity under low regularity
- Good geodesics satisfying the timelike curvature-dimension condition
- Gravitational Collapse and Space-Time Singularities
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3562121 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1909499 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 862955 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3894218 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3240363 (Why is no real title available?)
- Independence of synthetic curvature dimension conditions on transport distance exponent
- Inscribed radius bounds for lower Ricci bounded metric measure spaces with mean convex boundary
- Localization and tensorization properties of the curvature-dimension condition for metric measure spaces
- Lorentz and semi-Riemannian spaces with Alexandrov curvature bounds
- Lorentzian length spaces
- Maximum principles for null hypersurfaces and null splitting theorems
- Metric measure spaces with Riemannian Ricci curvature bounded from below
- Metric measure spaces with variable Ricci bounds and couplings of Brownian motions
- Non-branching geodesics and optimal maps in strong \(CD(K,\infty)\)-spaces
- Null distance and convergence of Lorentzian length spaces
- Null distance on a spacetime
- On the equivalence of the entropic curvature-dimension condition and Bochner's inequality on metric measure spaces
- On the geometry of metric measure spaces with variable curvature bounds
- On the geometry of metric measure spaces. I
- On the geometry of metric measure spaces. II
- Optimal maps and exponentiation on finite-dimensional spaces with Ricci curvature bounded from below
- Optimal Transport
- Optimal transport, gradient estimates, and pathwise Brownian coupling on spaces with variable Ricci bounds
- Properties of the null distance and spacetime convergence
- Ricci curvature for metric-measure spaces via optimal transport
- Rényi's entropy on Lorentzian spaces. Timelike curvature-dimension conditions
- Scalar-tensor gravitation and the Bakry-Émery-Ricci tensor
- Singularities, black holes, and cosmic censorship: a tribute to Roger Penrose
- Singularity theorems and the Lorentzian splitting theorem for the Bakry-Emery-Ricci tensor
- Singularity theorems for \(C^1\)-Lorentzian metrics
- Some regularity results for Lorentz-Finsler spaces
- Spacetime and geometry. An introduction to general relativity
- Spinor Structure of Space-Times in General Relativity. I
- The Existence of Complete Riemannian Metrics
- The globalization theorem for the curvature-dimension condition
- The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time
- The limit space of a Cauchy sequence of globally hyperbolic spacetimes
- The moduli space of isometry classes of globally hyperbolic spacetimes
- Topological censorship from the initial data point of view
- Uniqueness and transport density in Monge's mass transportation problem
- Uniqueness of curvature measures in pseudo-Riemannian geometry
Cited in
(10)- Characterization of the null energy condition via displacement convexity of entropy
- On curvature bounds in Lorentzian length spaces
- The Penrose singularity theorem, MOTS stability, and horizon topology in weighted spacetimes
- Optimal transport on null hypersurfaces and the null energy condition
- Ricci curvature bounds and rigidity for non-smooth Riemannian and semi-Riemannian metrics
- New perspectives on the d'Alembertian from general relativity. An invitation
- Warped products and synthetic lower curvature bounds: an overview
- Curvature bounds, regularity and inextendibility of spacetimes
- Equivalence of the null energy condition to variable lower bounds on the timelike Ricci curvature for C^2-Lorentzian metrics
- Exact d'Alembertian for Lorentz distance functions revision
This page was built for publication: A synthetic null energy condition
Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q6153511)
