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The open Milne cosmological spacetime has a 3-dimensional Cauchy surface isometric to the (non-compact) hyperbolic space. We prove the globally nonlinear stability of the open Milne spacetime for both massive and massless Einstein-scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Jinhua Wang , Wei Yuan

This article suggests the definition of "Lorentzian space" weakening the notion of Lorentzian length spaces just as much that it allows for a functor from the category of strongly causal Lorentzian manifolds to the corresponding category of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Olaf Müller

We construct globally hyperbolic spacetimes such that each slice $\{t=t_0\}$ of the universal time $t$ is a model space of constant curvature $k(t_0)$ which may not only vary with $t_0\in\mathbb{R}$ but also change its sign. The metric is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-09 Miguel Sánchez

We prove that globally hyperbolic compact anti-de Sitter (2+1)-spacetimes with strictly convex spacelike boundary that is either smooth or polyhedral and whose holonomy is close to Fuchsian are determined by the induced metric on the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Roman Prosanov , Jean-Marc Schlenker

In this paper we examine the structure of Riemannian manifolds with a special kind of Codazzi tensors. We use them to construct globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds with complete Cauchy hypersurfaces for any weakly irreducible holonomy…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-20 Helga Baum , Olaf Müller

Causal properties of Lorentzian symmetric spaces are investigated in the paper. The global hyperbolicity of the Cahen--Wallach Lorentzian symmetric spaces is proved.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-12-09 Ya. V. Bazaikin

The existence of closed hypersurfaces of prescribed curvature in globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds is proved provided there are barriers.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Claus Gerhardt

This is essentially a survey paper in which we solve the global Cauchy problem on causal manifolds for hyperbolic systems of linear partial differential equations in the framework of hyperfunctions. Besides the classical Cauchy-Kowalevsky…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Pierre Schapira

The purpose of this article is to present a result on the existence of Cauchy temporal functions invariant by the action of a compact group of conformal transformations in arbitrary globally hyperbolic manifolds. Moreover, the previous…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-19 Olaf Müller

We introduce the (2+1)-spacetimes with compact space of genus g and with r gravitating particles which arise by ``Minkowskian suspensions of flat or hyperbolic cone surfaces'', by ``distinguished deformations'' of hyperbolic suspensions and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Riccardo Benedetti , Enore Guadagnini

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

Let $M$ be a maximal globally hyperbolic Cauchy compact flat spacetime of dimension 2+1, admitting a Cauchy hypersurface diffeomorphic to a compact hyperbolic manifold. We study the asymptotic behaviour of level sets of quasi-concave time…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-01-19 Mehdi Belraouti

No Hopf-Rinow Theorem is possible in Lorentzian Geometry. Nonetheless, we prove that a spacetime is globally hyperbolic if and only if it is metrically complete with respect to the null distance of a time function. Our approach is based on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Annegret Burtscher , Leonardo García-Heveling

The aim of this survey is to give an overview on the geometry of Einstein maximal globally hyperbolic 2+1 spacetimes of arbitrary curvature, conatining a complete Cauchy surface of finite type. In particular a specialization to the finite…

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

We study the geometry of a weak Riemannian metric on the infinite dimensional manifold of compact spacelike Cauchy hypersurfaces in a globally hyperbolic spacetime. We show that the geodesic distance (i.e. the infimum of lengths of paths…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Daniel Monclair

We consider a special class of spacelike surfaces in the Minkowski 4-space which are one-parameter systems of meridians of the rotational hypersurface with timelike or spacelike axis. We call these surfaces meridian surfaces of elliptic or…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-15 Georgi Ganchev , Velichka Milousheva

This paper treats the global existence question for a collection of general relativistic collisionless particles, all having the same mass. The spacetimes considered are globally hyperbolic, with Cauchy surface a 3-torus. Furthermore, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Marsha Weaver

Globally hyperbolic spacetimes with timelike boundary $(\overline{M} = M \cup \partial M, g)$ are the natural class of spacetimes where regular boundary conditions (eventually asymptotic, if $\overline{M}$ is obtained by means of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-23 L. Aké Hau , José L. Flores , Miguel Sánchez

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

Recently, folk questions on the smoothability of Cauchy hypersurfaces and time functions of a globally hyperbolic spacetime M, have been solved. Here we give further results, applicable to several problems: (1) Any compact spacelike acausal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Antonio N. Bernal , Miguel Sánchez