Spacetime coverings and the causal boundary

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2017)051zbMATH Open1378.83008arXiv1605.03128MaRDI QIDQ680657FDOQ680657

Jónatan Herrera, Luis Alberto Aké

Publication date: 23 January 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the relation between the c-completion of a Lorentz manifold V and its quotient M = V/G, where G is an isometry group acting freely and properly discontinuously. First, we consider the future causal completion case, characterizing virtually when such a quotient is well behaved with the future chronological topology and improving the existing results on the literature. Secondly, we show that under some general assumptions, there exists an homeomorphism and chronological isomorphism between both, the c-completion of M and some adequate quotient of the c-completion of V defined by G. Our results are optimal, as we show in several examples. Finally, we give a practical application by considering isometric actions over Robertson-Walker spacetimes, including in particular the Anti-de Sitter model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.03128

zbMATH Keywords

classical theories of gravitydifferential and algebraic geometrydiscrete symmetriescausal boundaryfuture causal completionRobertson-Walker spacetime

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) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Topological characterizations of particular spaces (54F65)

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