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Recently, folk questions on the smoothability of Cauchy hypersurfaces and time functions of a globally hyperbolic spacetime M, have been solved. Here we give further results, applicable to several problems: (1) Any compact spacelike acausal submanifold H with boundary can be extended to a spacelike Cauchy hypersurface S. If H were only achronal, counterexamples to the smooth extension exist, but a continuous extension (in fact, valid for any compact achronal subset K) is still possible. (2) Given any spacelike Cauchy hypersurface S, a Cauchy temporal function T (i.e., a smooth function with past-directed timelike gradient everywhere, and Cauchy hypersurfaces as levels) with S equal to one of the levels, is constructed -thus, the spacetime splits orthogonally as $R times S$ in a canonical way. Even more, accura
Given a globally hyperbolic spacetime $M$, we show the existence of a {em smooth spacelike} Cauchy hypersurface $S$ and, thus, a global diffeomorphism between $M$ and $R times S$.
This paper has been withdrawn because the new one gr-qc/0512095 includes all its results (as well as those in gr-qc/0507018), in a clearer way.
We complement our work on the causality of upper semi-continuous distributions of cones with some results on Cauchy hypersurfaces. We prove that every locally stably acausal Cauchy hypersurface is stable. Then we prove that the signed distance $d_S$
This paper has been withdrawn because the new one gr-qc/0512095 includes all its results (as well as those in gr-qc/0511016) in a clearer way.
This paper gives a detailed pedagogic presentation of the central concepts underlying a new algorithm for the numerical solution of Einsteins equations for gravitation. This approach incorporates the best features of the two leading approaches to com