Universality of the Future Chronological Boundary
arXiv:gr-qc/9704011 · doi:10.1063/1.532582
Abstract
The purpose of this note is to establish, in a categorical manner, the universality of the Geroch-Kronheimer-Penrose causal boundary when considering the types of causal structures that may profitably be put on any sort of boundary for a spacetime. Actually, this can only be done for the future causal boundary (or the past causal boundary) separately; furthermore, only the chronology relation, not the causality relation, is considered, and the GKP topology is eschewed. The final result is that there is a unique map, with the proper causal properties, from the future causal boundary of a spacetime onto any ``reasonable" boundary which supports some sort of chronological structure and which purports to consist of a future completion of the spacetime. Furthermore, the future causal boundary construction is categorically unique in this regard.
25 pages, AMS-TeX; 2 figures, PostScript (separate); captions (separate); submitted to Class. Quantum Grav, slight revision: bottom lines legible, figures added, expanded discussion and examples
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