Stability of global hyperbolicity for cone-bundle sections

Let FF be the bundle whose sections define the relevant causal structures, and let Γ(F)\mathrm{\Gamma}(F) be its space of sections with the Whitney fine C0C^0 topology. Write ΓH(F)\mathrm{\Gamma}_H(F) for the globally hyperbolic sections, and Γ(F,C)\mathrm{\Gamma}(F,C) for sections strictly slower than a cone bundle CC. Stability of global hyperbolicity. The set ΓH(F)\mathrm{\Gamma}_H(F) is open in Γ(F)\mathrm{\Gamma}(F), and

ΓH(F)=globally hyperbolic CΓ(F,C).\mathrm{\Gamma}_H(F)=\bigcup_{\text{globally hyperbolic }C}\mathrm{\Gamma}(F,C).

Global hyperbolicity is known to be stable for Lorentzian cone bundles, while the corresponding assertion in the general cone-bundle setting remains to be proved; the conjecture supplies the technical stability needed for a direct cover by globally hyperbolic cone bundles.

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

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