Globally hyperbolic spacetimes: slicings, boundaries and counterexamples

DOI10.1007/s10714-022-03002-6OpenAlexW4306702062WikidataQ115604463 ScholiaQ115604463MaRDI QIDQ2098150

Yanyan Li

Publication date: 17 November 2022

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.13672

zbMATH Keywords

globally hyperbolic spacetimeCauchy slicingcausal boundariesnormally hyperbolic operatorPenrose conformal embeddingspace of conformal Lorentz metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Hyperbolic equations on manifolds (58J45) Initial value problems for second-order hyperbolic systems (35L52) Relativity and gravitational theory (83-XX)

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