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Discrete Group Actions on Spacetimes: Causality Conditions and the Causal Boundary

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

Suppose a spacetime MM is a quotient of a spacetime VV by a discrete group of isometries. It is shown how causality conditions in the two spacetimes are related, and how can one learn about the future causal boundary on MM by studying structures in VV. The relations between the two are particularly simple (the boundary of the quotient is the quotient of the boundary) if both VV and MM have spacelike future boundaries and if it is known that the quotient of the future completion of VV is past-distinguishing. (That last assumption is automatic in the case of MM being multi-warped.)

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0310071,
  title  = {Discrete Group Actions on Spacetimes: Causality Conditions and the Causal Boundary},
  author = {Steven G. Harris},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0310071},
  year   = {2009}
}

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32 pages