Global hyperbolicity for spacetimes with continuous metrics

DOI10.1007/s00023-015-0425-xzbMath1342.83014arXiv1412.2408OpenAlexW3099693477MaRDI QIDQ295524

Clemens Sämann

Publication date: 13 June 2016

Published in: Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.2408

zbMATH Keywords

compactnessspacetimesCauchy hypersurfacecausal diamondscausal simplicitycontinuous metricsglobal hyperbolicityimprisonmentstable causality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological characterizations of particular spaces (54F65) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10)

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