Spacetime extensions. II

Publication date 6 September 2010

Abstract: The global extendibility of smooth causal geodesically incomplete spacetimes is investigated. Denote by

g a m m a

one of the incomplete non-extendible causal geodesics of a causal geodesically incomplete spacetime

(M, g_{a b})

. First, it is shown that it is always possible to select a synchronised family of causal geodesics

G a m m a

and an open neighbourhood

m a t h c a l U

of a final segment of

g a m m a

in

M

such that

m a t h c a l U

is comprised by members of

G a m m a

, and suitable local coordinates can be defined everywhere on

m a t h c a l U

provided that

g a m m a

does not terminate either on a tidal force tensor singularity or on a topological singularity. It is also shown that if, in addition, the spacetime,

(M, g_{a b})

, is globally hyperbolic, and the components of the curvature tensor, and its covariant derivatives up to order

k - 1

are bounded on

m a t h c a l U

, and also the line integrals of the components of the

k^{t h}

-order covariant derivatives are finite along the members of

G a m m a

---where all the components are meant to be registered with respect to a synchronised frame field on

m a t h c a l U

---then there exists a

C^{k -}

extension

P h i : (M, g_{a b}) i g h t a r r o w (w i d e h a t M, w i d e h a t g_{a b})

so that for each

, which is inextendible in

(M, g_{a b})

, the image,

, is extendible in

(w i d e h a t M, w i d e h a t g_{a b})

. Finally, it is also proved that whenever

g a m m a

does terminate on a topological singularity

(M, g_{a b})

cannot be generic.

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