Nonsmooth splitting conjecture for infinitesimally Minkowskian TCD spaces
Nonsmooth splitting conjecture for infinitesimally Minkowskian TCD spaces
Let be a metric measure spacetime. It is infinitesimally Minkowskian if, for all -causal functions and , its maximal weak subslope satisfies
In particular, an space is an infinitesimally Minkowskian space. Nonsmooth splitting conjecture. Let be a globally hyperbolic metric measure spacetime, where is a real number no less than one. If it contains a line, then it is isomorphic as a metric measure spacetime to the generalized cone
where is an metric measure space. This is intended as a nonsmooth Lorentzian analogue of splitting theorems for RCD spaces. General TCD spaces do not split because Finsler spacetimes provide counterexamples, while the additional infinitesimal Minkowskianity condition is designed to recover a Lorentzian splitting result. The source does not indicate that this statement has been proved.
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Primary source
Mathias Braun, “New perspectives on the d'Alembertian from general relativity. An invitation”, arXiv:2501.19071 (2025).
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