Timelike completeness as an obstruction to $\textit{C}$$^{0}$-Extensions
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Sbierski, JJ
Galloway, GJ
Ling, E
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The study of low regularity (in-)extendibility of Lorentzian manifolds is motivated by the question whether a given solution to the Einstein equations can be extended (or is maximal) as a weak solution. In this paper we show that a timelike complete and globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifold is C0- inextendible. For the proof we make use of the result, recently established by S ̈amann [17], that even for continuous Lorentzian manifolds that are globally hyperbolic, there exists a length-maximizing causal curve between any two causally related points.
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4902 Mathematical Physics, 4904 Pure Mathematics, 49 Mathematical Sciences
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Communications in Mathematical Physics
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0010-3616
1432-0916
1432-0916
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Springer Nature
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Jan Sbierski would like to thank Magdalene College, Cambridge, for their financial support and the University of Miami for hospitality during a visit when this project was started.