The cosmological time function

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/15/2/006MaRDI QIDQ4219788zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lars Andersson, Gregory J. Galloway, Ralph Howard

Publication date 10 November 1998

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9709084

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological time functionglobally hyperbolicinitial singularityLorentzian distance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: Let $(M,g)$ be a time oriented Lorentzian manifold and $d$ the Lorentzian distance on $M$. The function $au(q):=su{p}_{p<q}d(p,q)$ is the cosmological time function of $M$, where as usual $p<q$ means that $p$ is in the causal past of $q$. This function is called regular iff $au(q)<infty$ for all $q$ and also $auo0$ along every past inextendible causal curve. If the cosmological time function $au$ of a space time $(M,g)$ is regular it has several pleasant consequences: (1) It forces $(M,g)$ to be globally hyperbolic, (2) every point of $(M,g)$ can be connected to the initial singularity by a rest curve (i.e., a timelike geodesic ray that maximizes the distance to the singularity), (3) the function $au$ is a time function in the usual sense, in particular (4) $au$ is continuous, in fact locally Lipschitz and the second derivatives of $au$ exist almost everywhere.

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