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In this manuscript we investigate the intrinsically flat (space-flat) spacetimes as viable cosmological models. We show that they have a natural geometric structure which is suitable to describe inhomogeneous matter distributions forming a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-25 Eduardo Bittencourt , Leandro G. Gomes , Grasiele B. Santos

We consider a free complex massive scalar on the quotient spacetime AdS$_3/\mathbb{Z}$, which has the isometry group SO(2,2) rather than its universal cover. This problem is of interest as a special example of QFT on a spacetime with closed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-20 Walker Melton , Andrew Strominger , Tianli Wang

The Siklos class of solutions of Einstein's field equations is investigated by analytical methods. By studying the behaviour of free particles we reach the conclusion that the space-times represent exact gravitational waves propagating in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Podolsky

It is well known that in Lorentz invariant quantum field theories in flat space the commutator of space-like separated local operators vanishes (microcausality). We provide two different arguments showing that this is a consequence of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergei Dubovsky , Alberto Nicolis , Enrico Trincherini , Giovanni Villadoro

Ori and Soen have proposed a spacetime which has closed causal curves on the boundary of a region of normal causality, all within a region where the weak energy condition (positive energy density) is satisfied. I analyze the causal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Ken D. Olum

Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) is a non-perturbative lattice approach to quantum gravity where one assumes space-time foliation into spatial hyper-surfaces of fixed topology. Most of the CDT results were obtained for the spatial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-03 Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki

It is proved that all discontinuity points of a finite cosmological time function, $\tau$, are on past lightlike rays. As a result, it is proved that if $(M,g)$ is a chronological space-time without past lightlike rays then there is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-16 Fatemeh Koohestani , Neda Ebrahimi , Mehdi Vatandoost , Yousef Bahrampour

A classical result in Lorentzian geometry states that a strongly causal spacetime is globally hyperbolic if and only if the Lorentzian distance is finite valued for every metric choice in the conformal class. It is proven here that a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-24 E. Minguzzi

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

Almost a century ago, Hubble discovered the cosmological redshift of extragalactic objects. The Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) metric was presented as a solution of Einstein's field equations for a homogeneous and isotropic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 Juan De Vicente

The causal properties of the family of Kerr-de Sitter spacetimes are analyzed and compared to those of the Kerr family. At first we show that a Kerr-de Sitter spacetime can be viewed as an assembly of Carter's blocks i.e. four dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-27 Thomas Zannias

We classify simply-connected homogeneous ($D+1$)-dimensional spacetimes for kinematical and aristotelian Lie groups with $D$-dimensional space isotropy for all $D\geq 0$. Besides well-known spacetimes like Minkowski and (anti) de Sitter we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-19 José Figueroa-O'Farrill , Stefan Prohazka

Recently, several notions of entanglement in time have emerged as a novel frontier in quantum many-body physics, quantum field theory and gravity. We propose a systematic prescription to characterize temporal entanglement in relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-29 Michal P. Heller , Fabio Ori , Alexandre Serantes

A time-flat condition on spacelike 2-surfaces in spacetime is considered here. This condition is analogous to constant torsion condition for curves in three dimensional space and has been studied in [2, 4, 5, 12, 13]. In particular, any…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-22 Po-Ning Chen , Mu-Tao Wang , Ye-Kai Wang

We propose an exact Hamiltonian lattice theory for (2+1)-dimensional spacetimes with homogeneous curvature. By gauging away the lattice we find a generalization of the ``polygon representation'' of (2+1)-dimensional gravity. We compute the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Criscuolo , H. Waelbroeck

Galileon models are a class of effective field theories that have recently received much attention. They arise in the decoupling limit of theories of massive gravity, and in some cases they have been treated in their own right as scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Clare Burrage , Claudia de Rham , Lavinia Heisenberg , Andrew J. Tolley

A family of type N exact solution of the Einstein's field equations, regular everywhere except on the symmetry axis where it possesses a naked curvature singularity, is present. The stress-energy tensor is of the anisotropic fluid coupled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-14 Faizuddin Ahmed

In this paper, we show that curvature-regular asymptotically flat solitons with negative mass are contained in the Myers-Perry family of odd spacetime dimensions. These solitons do not have a horizon, but instead a conical singularity of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-07 Gary Gibbons , Hideo Kodama

Using the standard Whitney topologies on spaces of Lorentzian metrics, we show that the existence of causal incomplete geodesics is a $C^\infty$-generic feature within the class of spacetimes of a given dimension $n\geq 3$ that are stably…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Ivan Pontual Costa e Silva , Victor Luis Espinoza

A condition proposed by David Deutsch to describe analogues of processes in the presence of closed timelike curves (D-CTC condition) in bipartite quantum systems is investigated within the framework of local relativistic quantum field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-08 Rainer Verch