Extension of acausal surfaces to Cauchy surfaces for cone-bundle embeddings

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Let C\firstC^\first and C\firstC^{\first} be globally hyperbolic spacelike cone bundles over MM and M′M', respectively, and let χ ⁣:M→M′\chi\colon M\to M' be an embedding inducing a chronologically compatible morphism T∗χ ⁣:C\first→C\firstT^*\chi\colon C^\first\to C^{\first}. If Σ⊂M\Sigma\subset M is a C\firstC^\first-Cauchy surface and K⊆ΣK\subseteq\Sigma is compact, then there is a neighborhood UU of KK in Σ\Sigma and a C\firstC^{\first}-Cauchy surface Σ′⊂M′\Sigma'\subset M' such that Σ′\Sigma' agrees with χ(Σ)\chi(\Sigma) on χ(U)\chi(U). Cauchy-surface extension conjecture. Under these hypotheses, such a surface Σ′\Sigma' exists for every compact K⊆ΣK\subseteq\Sigma. This would support the construction of locally covariant field theories by providing the Cauchy-surface extension needed for the Isotony property; its validity is left for future work.

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Igor Khavkine, “Characteristics, Conal Geometry and Causality in Locally Covariant Field Theory”, arXiv:1211.1914 (2012).

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