Spacelike metric foliations

DOI10.1016/S0393-0440(99)00021-2MaRDI QIDQ1962802zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Gerard Walschap

Publication date 16 August 2000

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0393-0440(99)00021-2

zbMATH Keywords

metric foliationspacetimestrong energy condition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

Review text

Consider a spacetime which is foliated by spacelike submanifolds. The foliation is metric if its leaves are locally the fibres of local semi-Riemannian submersions. It satisfies the strong energy condition if its vertical Ricci curvature is nonnegative on timelike vectors. An old result from \textit{R. K. Sachs} and \textit{H. Wu} [`General relativity for mathematicians' (GTM 48, Springer, New York) (1977; Zbl 0373.53001)] says that any metric foliation by spacelike hypersurfaces of a timelike complete spacetime \(M\) satisfying the strong energy condition splits, i.e., \(M\) is locally isometric to the product of an interval with a Riemannian manifold, equipped with the standard product foliation. In this paper, the author considers metric foliations of codimension two of a timelike complete spacetime \(M\) satisfying the strong energy condition. He shows that such foliations are totally geodesic and that every point of the spacetime is contained in a flat totally geodesic rectangle. (This result can be extended to Lorentzian manifolds of arbitrary dimension.) Moreover, if the vertical Ricci curvature vanishes on timelike vectors, then the spacetime decomposes locally in a product of two factors, the leaves of the foliation being tangent to the Riemannian factor.

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