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Low regularity approach to Bartnik's conjecture

Differential Geometry 2024-12-13 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

In this work we establish a version of the Bartnik Splitting Conjecture in the context of Lorentzian length spaces. In precise terms, we show that under an appropriate timelike completeness condition, a globally hyperbolic Lorentzian length space of the form Σ×R\Sigma\times \mathbb{R} with Σ\Sigma compact splits as a metric Lorentzian product, provided it has non negative timelike curvature bounds. This is achieved by showing that the causal boundary of that Lorentzian length space consists on a single point.

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@article{arxiv.2412.08967,
  title  = {Low regularity approach to Bartnik's conjecture},
  author = {José Luis Flores and Jónatan Herrera and Didier A. Solis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.08967},
  year   = {2024}
}

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