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Gromov's Compactness Theorem for the Intrinsic Timed-Hausdorff Distance

Metric Geometry 2026-02-27 v3 Differential Geometry

Abstract

The intrinsic timed-Hausdorff distance between timed-metric spaces, first introduced by Sakovich--Sormani, yields a weak notion of convergence for space-times. In this paper we prove a compactness theorem for the intrinsic timed-Hausdorff convergence of timed-metric spaces using timed-Fr\'echet maps. Our proof introduces the notion of "addresses" and provides a new way of stating Gromov's original compactness theorem for Gromov--Hausdorff convergence of metric spaces. We also obtain a new Arzel\`a--Ascoli theorem for real valued uniformly bounded Lipschitz functions on Gromov--Hausdorff converging compact metric spaces. Moreover, we establish the triangle inequality for the intrinsic timed-Hausdorff distance.

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@article{arxiv.2510.13069,
  title  = {Gromov's Compactness Theorem for the Intrinsic Timed-Hausdorff Distance},
  author = {Mauricio Che and Raquel Perales and Christina Sormani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.13069},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

39 pages, 2 figures. Added an Appendix proving the triangle inequality for the timed-Hausdorff distance