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A Lorentzian splitting theorem for continuously differentiable metrics and weights

Differential Geometry 2025-07-10 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Mathematical Physics Analysis of PDEs Metric Geometry math.MP

Abstract

We prove a splitting theorem for globally hyperbolic, weighted spacetimes with metrics and weights of regularity C1C^1 by combining elliptic techniques for the negative homogeneity pp-d'Alembert operator from our recent work in the smooth setting with the concept of line-adapted curves introduced here. Our results extend the Lorentzian splitting theorem proved for smooth globally hyperbolic spacetimes by Galloway -- and variants of its weighted counterparts by Case and Woolgar--Wylie -- to this low regularity setting.

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@article{arxiv.2507.06836,
  title  = {A Lorentzian splitting theorem for continuously differentiable metrics and weights},
  author = {Mathias Braun and Nicola Gigli and Robert J. McCann and Argam Ohanyan and Clemens Sämann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.06836},
  year   = {2025}
}

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44 pages

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