It is shown that causally simple inextendible spacetimes are hole-free, thus confirming the expectation that causal simplicity removes holes from spacetime. This result is optimal in the sense that causal simplicity cannot be weakened to causal continuity. Physically, it means that if there is some partial Cauchy hypersurface which, for some reason, does not fully develop its influence, then there is some discontinuity in the causal relation.
Causally simple inextendible spacetimes are hole-free / E. Minguzzi. - In: JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS. - ISSN 0022-2488. - STAMPA. - 53:(2012), pp. 062501-1-062501-7. [10.1063/1.4721271]
Causally simple inextendible spacetimes are hole-free
MINGUZZI, ETTORE
2012
Abstract
It is shown that causally simple inextendible spacetimes are hole-free, thus confirming the expectation that causal simplicity removes holes from spacetime. This result is optimal in the sense that causal simplicity cannot be weakened to causal continuity. Physically, it means that if there is some partial Cauchy hypersurface which, for some reason, does not fully develop its influence, then there is some discontinuity in the causal relation.File in questo prodotto:
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