Legendrian links, causality, and the Low conjecture
Abstract
Let be a globally hyperbolic spacetime with Cauchy surface diffeomorphic to an open subset of . The Legendrian Low conjecture formulated by Nat\'ario and Tod says that two events are causally related if and only if the Legendrian link of spheres whose points are light geodesics passing through and is non-trivial in the contact manifold of all light geodesics in . The Low conjecture says that for the events are causally related if and only if is non-trivial as a topological link. We prove the Low and the Legendrian Low conjectures. We also show that similar statements hold for any globally hyperbolic such that a cover of its Cauchy surface is diffeomorphic to an open domain in
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@article{arxiv.0810.5091,
title = {Legendrian links, causality, and the Low conjecture},
author = {Vladimir Chernov and Stefan Nemirovski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.5091},
year = {2010}
}
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