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Causal and conformal structures of globally hyperbolic spacetimes

Differential Geometry 2015-12-09 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

The group of conformal diffeomorphisms and the group of causal automorphisms on two-dimensional globally hyperbolic spacetimes are clarified. It is shown that if spacetimes have non-compact Cauchy surfaces, then the groups are subgroups of that of two-dimensional Minkowski spacetime, and if spacetimes have compact Cauchy surfaces, then the groups are subgroups of that of two-dimensional Einstein's static universe.

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@article{arxiv.1501.06979,
  title  = {Causal and conformal structures of globally hyperbolic spacetimes},
  author = {Do-Hyung Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.06979},
  year   = {2015}
}