Further results on the smoothability of Cauchy hypersurfaces and Cauchy time functions

DOI10.1007/s11005-006-0091-5zbMath1126.53043arXivgr-qc/0512095OpenAlexW3099358373MaRDI QIDQ883185

Antonio N. Bernal, Miguel Sánchez

Publication date: 31 May 2007

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0512095

zbMATH Keywords

submanifoldscausalityCauchy hypersurfaceglobal hyperbolicitysmoothabilityGeroch's theoremquantum fields on curved space-timestime and temporal functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Partial differential equations on manifolds; differential operators (58Jxx)

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