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Alexandrov's Patchwork and the Bonnet--Myers Theorem for Lorentzian length spaces

Differential Geometry 2025-05-12 v3 Mathematical Physics Metric Geometry math.MP

Abstract

We present several key results for Lorentzian pre-length spaces with global timelike curvature bounds. Most significantly, we construct a Lorentzian analogue to Alexandrov's Patchwork, thus proving that suitably nice Lorentzian pre-length spaces with local upper timelike curvature bound also satisfy a corresponding global upper bound. Additionally, for spaces with global lower bound on their timelike curvature, we provide a Bonnet--Myers style result, constraining their finite diameter. Throughout, we make the natural comparisons to the metric case, concluding with a discussion of potential applications and ongoing work.

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@article{arxiv.2302.11615,
  title  = {Alexandrov's Patchwork and the Bonnet--Myers Theorem for Lorentzian length spaces},
  author = {Tobias Beran and Lewis Napper and Felix Rott},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.11615},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

40 pages, 6 figures. Final version