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Moitvated in part by [3], in this note we obtain a rigidity result for globally hyperbolic vacuum spacetimes in arbitrary dimension that admit a timelike conformal Killing vector field. Specifically, we show that if M is a Ricci flat,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-09 Gregory J. Galloway , Carlos Vega

The scope of this survey is to give a self-contained introduction to synthetic timelike Ricci curvature bounds for (possibly non-smooth) Lorentzian spaces via optimal transport $\&$ entropy tools, including a synthetic version of Hawking's…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-11 Fabio Cavalletti , Andrea Mondino

We define a one-parameter family of canonical volume measures on Lorentzian (pre-)length spaces. In the Lorentzian setting, this allows us to define a geometric dimension - akin to the Hausdorff dimension for metric spaces - that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Robert J. McCann , Clemens Sämann

We introduce conformal transformations in the synthetic setting of metric spaces and Lorentzian (pre-)length spaces. Our main focus lies on the Lorentzian case, where, motivated by the need to extend classical notions to spaces of low…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Miguel Manzano , Karim Mosani , Clemens Sämann , Omar Zoghlami

We begin with a basic exploration of the (point-set topological) notion of Hausdorff closed limits in the spacetime setting. Specifically, we show that this notion of limit is well suited to sequences of achronal sets, and use this to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-28 Gregory J. Galloway , Carlos Vega

In the synthetic geometric setting introduced by Kunzinger and S\"amann, we present an analogue of Toponogov's Globalisation Theorem which applies to Lorentzian length spaces with lower (timelike) curvature bounds. Our approach utilises a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Tobias Beran , John Harvey , Lewis Napper , Felix Rott

In this article we introduce a notion of normalized angle for Lorentzian pre-length spaces. This concept allows us to prove some equivalences to the definition of timelike curvature bounds from below for Lorentzian pre-length spaces.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Waldemar Barrera , Luis Montes de Oca , Didier A. Solis

We analyze Lorentzian spacetimes subject to curvature-dimension bounds using the Bakry-\'Emery-Ricci tensor. We extend the Hawking-Penrose type singularity theorem and the Lorentzian timelike splitting theorem to synthetic dimensions $N\le…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-26 Eric Woolgar , William Wylie

We present the notion of temporal Lorentzian spectral triple which is an extension of the notion of pseudo-Riemannian spectral triple with a way to ensure that the signature of the metric is Lorentzian. A temporal Lorentzian spectral triple…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-11 Nicolas Franco

An important, if relatively less well known aspect of the singularity theorems in Lorentzian Geometry is to understand how their conclusions fare upon weakening or suppression of one or more of their hypotheses. Then, theorems with modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-20 I. P. Costa e Silva , J. L. Flores

The definitions of global hyperbolicity for closed cone structures and topological preordered spaces are known to coincide. In this work we clarify the connection with definitions of global hyperbolicity proposed in recent literature on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-10 E. Minguzzi

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 work we revisit the notion of the (future) causal completion of a globally hyperbolic spacetime and endow it with the structure of a Lorentzian pre-length space. We further carry out this construction for a certain class of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-28 L. Ake Hau , Saul Burgos , Didier A. Solis

In this conference published in 1997 some problems on the geodesics of a Lorentzian manifold concerning causality and infinite-dimensional variational methods, are pointed out. Even though a big progress on many of these questions have been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Miguel Sanchez

We consider a Lorentzian analogue of the Ptolemy inequality and we prove that in the setting of globally hyperbolic spacetimes it is equivalent to a global timelike sectional curvature bound from above by zero. We investigate the link…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Felix Rott , Zhe-Feng Xu , Matteo Zanardini

We prove a synthetic Bonnet-Myers rigidity theorem for globally hyperbolic Lorentzian length spaces with global curvature bounded below by $K<0$ and an open distance realizer of length $L=\frac{\pi}{\sqrt{|K|}}$: It states that the space…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Tobias Beran

We introduce a notion of Lorentzian metric space which drops the boundedness condition from our previous work and argue that the properties defining our spaces are minimal. In fact, they are defined by three conditions given by (a) the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-13 A. Bykov , E. Minguzzi , S. Suhr

It is well-known that global hyperbolicity implies that the Lorentzian distance is finite and continuous. By carefully analysing the causes of discontinuity of the Lorentzian distance, we show that in most other respects the finiteness and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-07 Adam Rennie , Ben Whale

We prove that the topology, smooth structure, and metric of a compact Lorentzian manifold with boundary is uniquely determined by data at the boundary. The data consists of the lengths and directions of future-directed once-broken geodesics…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Eric Larsson

We show the rigid singularity theorem, that is, a globally hyperbolic spacetime satisfying the strong energy condition and containing past trapped sets, either is timelike geodesically incomplete or splits isometrically as space $\times$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Makoto Narita