A domain of spacetime intervals in general relativity

Authors Keye Martin, Prakash Panangaden



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Keye Martin
Prakash Panangaden

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Keye Martin and Prakash Panangaden. A domain of spacetime intervals in general relativity. In Spatial Representation: Discrete vs. Continuous Computational Models. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 4351, pp. 1-28, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2005)
https://doi.org/10.4230/DagSemProc.04351.5

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We prove that a globally hyperbolic spacetime with its causality relation is a bicontinuous poset whose interval topology is the manifold topology. This implies that from only a countable dense set of events and the causality relation, it is possible to reconstruct a globally hyperbolic spacetime in a purely order theoretic manner. The ultimate reason for this is that globally hyperbolic spacetimes belong to a category that is equivalent to a special category of domains called interval domains. We obtain a mathematical setting in which one can study causality independently of geometry and differentiable structure, and which also suggests that spacetime emanates from something discrete.
Keywords
  • Causality
  • spacetime
  • global hyperbolicity
  • interval domains
  • bicontinuous posets
  • spacetime topology

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