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We extend Beem's three completeness notions -- finite compactness, timelike Cauchy completeness, and Condition A -- originally defined for spacetimes, to Lorentzian length spaces and study their relationships. We prove that finite…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Keita Takahashi

We consider pseudoconvexity properties in Lorentzian and Riemannian manifolds and their relationship in static spacetimes. We provide an example of a causally continuous and maximal null pseudoconvex spacetime that fails to be causally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-30 Jakob Hedicke , Ettore Minguzzi , Benedict Schinnerl , Roland Steinbauer , Stefan Suhr

Global hyperbolicity is a central concept in Mathematical Relativity. Here, we review the different approaches to this concept explaining both, classical approaches and recent results. The former includes Cauchy hypersurfaces, naked…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-07 Miguel Sánchez

We construct a Lorentzian length space with an orthogonal splitting on a product $I\times X$ of an interval and a metric space, and use this framework to consider the relationship between metric and causal geometry, as well as synthetic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-20 Elefterios Soultanis

Within the synthetic-geometric framework of Lorentzian (pre-)length spaces developed in Kunzinger and S\"amann (Ann. Glob. Anal. Geom. 54(3):399--447, 2018) we introduce a notion of a hyperbolic angle, an angle between timelike curves and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Tobias Beran , Clemens Sämann

For a physical interpretation of a theory of quantum gravity, it is necessary to recover classical spacetime, at least approximately. However, quantum gravity may eventually provide classical spacetimes by giving spectral data similar to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Tomas Kopf

In this second paper, I construct a limit space of a Cauchy sequence of globally hyperbolic spacetimes. In the second section, I work gradually towards a construction of the limit space. I prove the limit space is unique up to isometry. I…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Johan Noldus

Under normal circumstances most members of the general relativity community focus almost exclusively on the local properties of spacetime, such as the locally Euclidean structure of the manifold and the Lorentzian signature of the metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-28 Deloshan Nawarajan , Matt Visser

A number of techniques in Lorentzian geometry, such as those used in the proofs of singularity theorems, depend on certain smooth coverings retaining interesting global geometric properties, including causal ones. In this note we give…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Ettore Minguzzi , Ivan P. Costa e Silva

We prove that a globally hyperbolic spacetime with its causality relation is a bicontinuous poset whose interval topology is the manifold topology. This provides an abstract mathematical setting in which one can study causality independent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Keye Martin , Prakash Panangaden

We obtain some results in both Lorentz and Finsler geometries, by using a correspondence between the conformal structure (Causality) of standard stationary spacetimes on $M=\R\times S$ and Randers metrics on $S$. In particular, for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-04-12 Erasmo Caponio , Miguel Angel Javaloyes , Miguel Sanchez

In this work, we seek characterizations of global hyperbolicity in smooth Lorentzian manifolds that do not rely on the manifold topology and that are inspired by metric geometry. In particular, strong causality is not assumed, so part of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-07 A. Bykov , E. Minguzzi

Some well-known Lorentzian concepts are transferred into the more general setting of cone structures, which provide both the causality of the spacetime and the notion of cone geodesics without making use of any metric. Lightlike…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Miguel Ángel Javaloyes , Enrique Pendás-Recondo

The zoology of singularities for Lorentzian manifold is slightly more complicated than for Riemannian manifolds. Our present work study Cauchy-compact globally hyperbolic singular flat spacetimes with extreme BTZ-like singular lines. We use…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Léo Brunswic

Existence of global CMC foliations of constant curvature 3-dimensional maximal globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds, containing a constant mean curvature hypersurface with $\genus(\Sigma) > 1$ is proved. Constant curvature 3-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Lars Andersson , Vincent Moncrief , Anthony J. Tromba

This work investigates some global questions about cosmological spacetimes with two dimensional spherical, plane and hyperbolic symmetry containing matter. The result is, that these spacetimes admit a global foliation by prescribed mean…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Oliver Henkel

We develop a ``canonical Wick rotation-rescaling theory in 3-dimensional gravity''. This includes: (a) A simultaneous classification that shows how generic maximal globally hyperbolic spacetimes of constant curvature, which admit a complete…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Riccardo Benedetti , Francesco Bonsante

We introduce an analogue of the theory of length spaces into the setting of Lorentzian geometry and causality theory. The r\^ole of the metric is taken over by the time separation function, in terms of which all basic notions are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-07 Michael Kunzinger , Clemens Sämann

I introduce a family of closeness functions between causal Lorentzian geometries of finite volume and arbitrary underlying topology. When points are randomly scattered in a Lorentzian manifold, with uniform density according to the volume…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Luca Bombelli

We consider the Cauchy problem for strictly hyperbolic $m$-th order partial differential equations with coefficients low-regular in time and smooth in space. It is well-known that the problem is $L^2$ well-posed in the case of Lipschitz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-01 Massimo Cicognani , Daniel Lorenz