Non-negative Legendrian isotopy in ST^M

DOI10.2140/GT.2010.14.611zbMATH Open1194.53066OpenAlexW3100366283MaRDI QIDQ982159FDOQ982159

Authors J. Martínez

Publication date 6 July 2010

Published in Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.0983

zbMATH Keywords

causalitypartial ordercontact structureLegendrian isotopy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) General relativity (83C99)

Abstract: It is shown that if the universal cover of a manifold $M$ is an open manifold, then two different fibres of the spherical cotangent bundle $S{T}^{\ast }M$ cannot be connected by a non-negative Legendrian isotopy. This result is applied to the study of causality in globally hyperbolic spacetimes. It is also used to strengthen a result of Eliashberg, Kim, and Polterovich on the existence of a partial order on $widetilde{mathrmCont}_0(S{T}^{\ast }M)$.

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