Maximality and Cauchy developments of Lorentzian length spaces
Differential Geometry
2026-04-07 v4
Abstract
This article suggests the definition of "Lorentzian space" weakening the notion of Lorentzian length spaces just as much that it allows for a functor from the category of strongly causal Lorentzian manifolds to the corresponding category of Lorentzian spaces, and considers three problems in the context of maximal Cauchy developments of Lorentzian spaces: The first is to define pointed Gromov-Hausdorff metrics for spatially and temporally noncompact Lorentzian spaces, the second to present an explicit non-spacetime example of a maximal globally hyperbolic Lorentzian space, the third to define canonical representatives for Cauchy developments. A certain well-posedness property for geodesics plays a key role in each of the problems.
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@article{arxiv.2404.06428,
title = {Maximality and Cauchy developments of Lorentzian length spaces},
author = {Olaf Müller},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.06428},
year = {2026}
}
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14 pages