Author : Jose Luis Flores
Release : 2013-10-23
Genre : Mathematics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 750/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Gromov, Cauchy and Causal Boundaries for Riemannian, Finslerian and Lorentzian Manifolds by : Jose Luis Flores
Download or read book Gromov, Cauchy and Causal Boundaries for Riemannian, Finslerian and Lorentzian Manifolds written by Jose Luis Flores. This book was released on 2013-10-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently, the old notion of causal boundary for a spacetime V has been redefined consistently. The computation of this boundary ∂V on any standard conformally stationary spacetime V=R×M, suggests a natural compactification MB associated to any Riemannian metric on M or, more generally, to any Finslerian one. The corresponding boundary ∂BM is constructed in terms of Busemann-type functions. Roughly, ∂BM represents the set of all the directions in M including both, asymptotic and "finite" (or "incomplete") directions. This Busemann boundary ∂BM is related to two classical boundaries: the Cauchy boundary ∂CM and the Gromov boundary ∂GM. The authors' aims are: (1) to study the subtleties of both, the Cauchy boundary for any generalized (possibly non-symmetric) distance and the Gromov compactification for any (possibly incomplete) Finsler manifold, (2) to introduce the new Busemann compactification MB, relating it with the previous two completions, and (3) to give a full description of the causal boundary ∂V of any standard conformally stationary spacetime. J. L. Flores and J. Herrera, University of Malaga, Spain, and M. Sánchez, University of Granada, Spain. Publisher's note.
