Maximizers in Lipschitz spacetimes are either timelike or null
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2018-03-28 v2
Abstract
We prove that causal maximizers in spacetimes are either timelike or null. This question was posed in [17] since bubbling regions in spacetimes () can produce causal maximizers that contain a segment which is timelike and a segment which is null, cf. [3]. While spacetimes do not produce bubbling regions, the causal character of maximizers for spacetimes with regularity at least but less than was unknown until now. As an application we show that timelike geodesically complete spacetimes are -inextendible.
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@article{arxiv.1712.06504,
title = {Maximizers in Lipschitz spacetimes are either timelike or null},
author = {Melanie Graf and Eric Ling},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.06504},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
7 pages, 1 figure. Version 2 accepted to CQ&G