Manifold-Topology from K-Causal Order
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2019-05-22 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
To a significant extent, the metrical and topological properties of spacetime can be described purely order-theoretically. The relation has proven to be useful for this purpose, and one could wonder whether it could serve as the primary causal order from which everything else would follow. In that direction, we prove, by defining a suitable order-theoretic boundary of , that in a -causal spacetime, the manifold-topology can be recovered from . We also state a conjecture on how the chronological relation could be defined directly in terms of .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1811.09765,
title = {Manifold-Topology from K-Causal Order},
author = {Rafael D. Sorkin and Yasaman K. Yazdi and Nosiphiwo Zwane},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.09765},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
v2: 9 pages, 2 figures. Minor changes