Generalized cones as Lorentzian length spaces: Causality, curvature, and singularity theorems

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Authors Stephanie B. Alexander, Melanie Graf, Michael Kunzinger, C. Sämann

Publication date 20 September 2019

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Synthetic differential geometry (51K10)

Abstract: We study generalizations of Lorentzian warped products with one-dimensional base of the form $Iime{s}_{f}X$, where $I$ is an interval, $X$ is a length space and $f$ is a positive continuous function. These generalized cones furnish an important class of Lorentzian length spaces in the sense of [Kunzinger, S"amann; Ann. Glob. Anal. Geom. 54(3):399--447, 2018], displaying optimal causality properties that allow for explicit descriptions of all underlying notions. In addition, synthetic sectional curvature bounds of generalized cones are directly related to metric curvature bounds of the fiber $X$. The interest in such spaces comes both from metric geometry and from General Relativity, where warped products underlie important cosmological models (FLRW spacetimes). Moreover, we prove singularity theorems for these spaces, showing that non-positive lower timelike curvature bounds imply the existence of incomplete timelike geodesics.

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