Volume comparison for C^1,1-metrics

DOI10.1007/S10455-016-9508-2MaRDI QIDQ728424zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Melanie Graf

Publication date 20 December 2016

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.08931

zbMATH Keywords

comparison geometryLorentzian manifoldlow regularityRicci curvatureRiemannian manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

Abstract: We establish volume comparison results for balls in Riemannian manifolds with $C^{1,1}$-metrics with a lower bound on the Ricci tensor and for the evolution of spacelike, acausal, causally complete hypersurfaces with an upper bound on the mean curvature in spacetimes with $C^{1,1}$-metrics with a lower bound on the timelike Ricci curvature. These results are then used to give proofs of Myers' theorem and of Hawking's singularity theorem in this regularity.

Review text

In the reviewed paper the author generalizes certain volume comparison theorems for smooth Riemannian or Lorentzian manifolds to metrics that are only \(C^{1,1}\). For a (semi-)Riemannnian metric the class \(C^{1,1}\) (locally Lipschitz continuous first derivatives) is the lowest differentiability class of the metric where one still has local existence and uniqueness of solutions of the geodesic equation. First the author studies Riemannian manifolds with \(C^{1,1}\)-metrics with a lower bound on the Ricci curvature and shows a \(C^{1,1}\) version of the Bishop-Gromov volume comparison theorem. In the Lorentzian case, she first gives the definition of the cosmological comparison condition, then shows the existence of suitable approximating metrics and that for \(C^{1,1}\)-metrics the cut locus still has measure zero. Next, the author defines comparison spacetimes as Robertson-Walker spacetimes with constant Ricci curvature and studies their dependence on the curvature quantities \(\kappa\) and \(\beta\). Finally, she proves a volume comparison theorem and shows some applications of this.

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