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Gluing constructions for Lorentzian length spaces

Differential Geometry 2023-09-26 v1 Mathematical Physics Metric Geometry math.MP

Abstract

We introduce an analogue to the amalgamation of metric spaces into the setting of Lorentzian pre-length spaces. This provides a very general process of constructing new spaces out of old ones. The main application in this work is an analogue of the gluing theorem of Reshetnyak for CAT(kk) spaces, which roughly states that gluing is compatible with upper curvature bounds. We formulate the theorem in terms of (strongly causal) spacetimes viewed as Lorentzian length spaces.

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@article{arxiv.2201.09695,
  title  = {Gluing constructions for Lorentzian length spaces},
  author = {Tobias Beran and Felix Rott},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.09695},
  year   = {2023}
}

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39 pages, 14 figures

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