English

Maximizers in Lipschitz spacetimes are either timelike or null

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2018-03-28 v2

Abstract

We prove that causal maximizers in C0,1C^{0,1} spacetimes are either timelike or null. This question was posed in [17] since bubbling regions in C0,αC^{0,\alpha} spacetimes (α<1\alpha <1) can produce causal maximizers that contain a segment which is timelike and a segment which is null, cf. [3]. While C0,1C^{0,1} spacetimes do not produce bubbling regions, the causal character of maximizers for spacetimes with regularity at least C0,1C^{0,1} but less than C1,1C^{1,1} was unknown until now. As an application we show that timelike geodesically complete spacetimes are C0,1C^{0,1}-inextendible.

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@article{arxiv.1712.06504,
  title  = {Maximizers in Lipschitz spacetimes are either timelike or null},
  author = {Melanie Graf and Eric Ling},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.06504},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

7 pages, 1 figure. Version 2 accepted to CQ&G

R2 v1 2026-06-22T23:21:50.665Z