Chronological spacetimes without lightlike lines are stably causal

DOI10.1007/S00220-009-0784-6zbMATH Open1175.83054arXiv0806.0153OpenAlexW2070500923MaRDI QIDQ842497FDOQ842497

Authors: E. Minguzzi 

Publication date: 25 September 2009

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The statement of the title is proved. It implies that under physically reasonable conditions, spacetimes which are free from singularities are necessarily stably causal and hence admit a time function. Read as a singularity theorem it states that if there is some form of causality violation on spacetime then either it is the worst possible, namely violation of chronology, or there is a singularity. The analogous result: "Non-totally vicious spacetimes without lightlike rays are globally hyperbolic" is also proved, and its physical consequences are explored.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.0153

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

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