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A regularisation approach to causality theory for $C^{1,1}$-Lorentzian metrics

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 Added by Roland Steinbauer
 Publication date 2013
  fields Physics
and research's language is English




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We show that many standard results of Lorentzian causality theory remain valid if the regularity of the metric is reduced to $C^{1,1}$. Our approach is based on regularisations of the metric adapted to the causal structure.



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