The geometry of small causal diamonds

DOI10.1016/j.physletb.2007.03.068zbMath1248.53051arXivhep-th/0703098WikidataQ125865446 ScholiaQ125865446MaRDI QIDQ713505

Sergey N. Solodukhin, Gary W. Gibbons

Publication date: 18 October 2012

Published in: Physics Letters. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0703098

zbMATH Keywords

causal diamonds; Alexandrov open sets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53Z05: Applications of differential geometry to physics

83C99: General relativity

53C80: Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences

53C50: Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics

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