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This paper provides a thorough introduction to the causal set hypothesis aimed at students, and other interested persons, with some knowledge of general relativity and nonrelativistic quantum mechanics. I elucidate the arguments for why the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 David D. Reid

We describe up to finite coverings causal flat affine complete Lorentzian manifolds such that the past and the future of any point are closed near this point. We say that these manifolds are strictly causal. In particular, we prove that…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 V. M. Gichev , O. S. Morozov

We define and study an extended hyperbolic space which contains the hyperbolic space and de Sitter space as subspaces and which is obtained as an analytic continuation of the hyperbolic space. The construction of the extended space gives…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2010-01-05 Yunhi Cho , Hyuk Kim

Based on the recent work \cite{PII} we put forward a new type of transformation for Lorentzian manifolds characterized by mapping every causal future-directed vector onto a causal future-directed vector. The set of all such transformations,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Alfonso García-Parrado , José M. M. Senovilla

We propose a formulation of a Lorentzian quantum geometry based on the framework of causal fermion systems. After giving the general definition of causal fermion systems, we deduce space-time as a topological space with an underlying causal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-01-28 Felix Finster , Andreas Grotz

We introduce a class of causal manifolds which contains the globally hyperbolic spacetimes and we prove global propagation theorems for sheaves on such manifolds. As an application, we solve globally the Cauchy problem for hyperfunction…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-03 Benoit Jubin , Pierre Schapira

We recast the tools of ``global causal analysis'' in accord with an approach to the subject animated by two distinctive features: a thoroughgoing reliance on order-theoretic concepts, and a utilization of the Vietoris topology for the space…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 R. D. Sorkin , E. Woolgar

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

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

Causality is one of the fundamental structures of spacetimes, determining the possible behaviour and propagation of physical information. Causal structure can be analysed through the various modal logics it induces. The modal logics for the…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Marco Lewis , Nesta van der Schaaf

This chapter is an up-to-date account of results on globally hyperbolic spacetimes, and serves several purposes. We begin with the exposition of results from a foundational level, where the main tools are order theory and general topology,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Felix Finster , Albert Much , Kyriakos Papadopoulos

We consider the usual causal structure $(I^+,J^+)$ on a spacetime, and a number of alternatives based on Minguzzi's $D^+$ and Sorkin and Woolgar's $K^+$, in the case where the spacetime metric is continuous, but not necessarily smooth. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-30 Leonardo García-Heveling

Minkowski space is the local model of 3 dimensionnal flat spacetimes. Recent progress in the description of globally hyperbolic flat spacetimes showed strong link between Lorentzian geometry and Teichm{\"u}ller space. We notice that…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-05-19 Léo Brunswic

In this paper we prove a closure result for globally hyperbolic spacetimes satisfying, at a certain time, natural assumptions on the deceleration, the pressure and the Hubble constant. The main tool that we use is a general Bonnet-Myers…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-12 Giovanni Catino , Alberto Roncoroni

This is the last article in a series of three initiated by the second author. We elaborate on the concepts and theorems constructed in the previous articles. In particular, we prove that the GH and the GGH uniformities previously introduced…

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

We present some of the recent results and open questions on the causality problem in General Relativity. The concept of singularity is intimately connected with future trapped surface and inner event horizon formation. We offer a brief…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-27 E. M. Howard

We study one-dimensional linear hyperbolic systems with $L^{\infty}$-coefficients subjected to periodic conditions in time and reflection boundary conditions in space. We derive a priori estimates and give an operator representation of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Irina Kmit

We review recent work on the existence and nature of cosmological singularities that can be formed during the evolution of generic as well as specific cosmological spacetimes in general relativity. We first discuss necessary and sufficient…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Spiros Cotsakis

The purpose of this work is to bring gravitational theories into play within the quickly developing framework of factorization algebras. We fit the causal structure of Lorentzian manifolds into categorical language, and in the globally…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Filip Dul

Causal fermion systems are introduced as a general mathematical framework for formulating relativistic quantum theory. By specializing, we recover earlier notions like fermion systems in discrete space-time, the fermionic projector and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-06-17 Felix Finster , Andreas Grotz , Daniela Schiefeneder