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A Lorentzian analog for Hausdorff dimension and measure

Mathematical Physics 2023-09-26 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Differential Geometry Metric Geometry math.MP

Abstract

We define a one-parameter family of canonical volume measures on Lorentzian (pre-)length spaces. In the Lorentzian setting, this allows us to define a geometric dimension - akin to the Hausdorff dimension for metric spaces - that distinguishes between e.g. spacelike and null subspaces of Minkowski spacetime. The volume measure corresponding to its geometric dimension gives a natural reference measure on a synthetic or limiting spacetime, and allows us to define what it means for such a spacetime to be collapsed (in analogy with metric measure geometry and the theory of Riemannian Ricci limit spaces). As a crucial tool we introduce a doubling condition for causal diamonds and a notion of causal doubling measures. Moreover, applications to continuous spacetimes and connections to synthetic timelike curvature bounds are given.

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@article{arxiv.2110.04386,
  title  = {A Lorentzian analog for Hausdorff dimension and measure},
  author = {Robert J. McCann and Clemens Sämann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.04386},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

45 pages, 4 figures; v2: minor improvements