English

Causal completion of a globally hyperbolic conformally flat spacetime

Differential Geometry 2023-12-12 v1 Representation Theory

Abstract

In [6], Geroch, Kronheimer and Penrose introduced a way to attach ideal points to a spacetime M , defining the causal completion of M. They established that this is a topological space which is Hausdorff when M is globally hyperbolic. In this paper, we prove that if, in addition, M is simply-connected and conformally flat, its causal completion is a topological manifold with boundary homeomorphic to S x [0, 1] where S is a Cauchy hypersurface of M. We also introduce three remarkable families of globally hyperbolic conformally flat spacetimes and provide a description of their causal completions.

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@article{arxiv.2312.06238,
  title  = {Causal completion of a globally hyperbolic conformally flat spacetime},
  author = {Rym Smaï},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.06238},
  year   = {2023}
}
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