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Inextendibility of spacetimes and Lorentzian length spaces
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Inextendibility of spacetimes and Lorentzian length spaces

James Grant, Michael Kunzinger and Clemens Samann
Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry, Vol.55(1), pp.133-147
10/11/2018

Abstract

Length spaces; Lorentzian length spaces; Causality theory; Synthetic curvature bounds; Triangle comparison; Metric geometry; Inextendibility
We study the low-regularity (in-)extendibility of spacetimes within the synthetic-geometric framework of Lorentzian length spaces developed in [KS17]. To this end, we introduce appropriate notions of geodesics and timelike geodesic completeness and prove a general inextendibility result. Our results shed new light on recent analytic work in this direction and, for the first time, relate low-regularity inextendibility to (synthetic) curvature blow-up.
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