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Topologies on the future causal completion

Differential Geometry 2024-12-17 v9

Abstract

On the Geroch-Kronheimer-Penrose future completion IP(X)IP(X) of a spacetime XX, there are two frequently used topologies. We systematically examine τ+\tau_+, the stronger (metrizable) of them, which is the coarsest causally continuous topology, obtaining a variety of novel results, among them a complete characterization of the difference in convergence between both topologies. In our framework, we can allow for XX being a chr. space and consequently for the interpretation of IPIP as an idempotent functor on a category that includes spacetimes of very low regularity. Furthermore, we explicitly calculate (IP(X),τ+)(IP(X), \tau_+) for multiply warped chronological spaces.

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@article{arxiv.1909.03797,
  title  = {Topologies on the future causal completion},
  author = {Olaf Müller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.03797},
  year   = {2024}
}

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33 pages

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