Nonsmooth splitting conjecture for infinitesimally Minkowskian TCD spaces

Let (M,l,m)(\mathsf{M},l,\mathfrak{m}) be a metric measure spacetime. It is infinitesimally Minkowskian if, for all ll-causal functions uu and vv, its maximal weak subslope satisfies

2∣du∣∗2+2∣d(u+v)∣∗2=∣dv∣∗2+∣d(2u+v)∣∗2m-a.e.2\lvert\mathrm{d}u\rvert_*^2+2\lvert\mathrm{d}(u+v)\rvert_*^2=\lvert\mathrm{d}v\rvert_*^2+\lvert\mathrm{d}(2u+v)\rvert_*^2\quad\mathfrak{m}\text{-a.e.}

In particular, an LTCDqe(K,N)\mathsf{LTCD}_q^e(K,N) space is an infinitesimally Minkowskian TCDqe(K,N)\mathsf{TCD}_q^e(K,N) space. Nonsmooth splitting conjecture. Let (M,l,m)(\mathsf{M},l,\mathfrak{m}) be a globally hyperbolic LTCDqe(0,N)\mathsf{LTCD}_q^e(0,N) metric measure spacetime, where NN 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

(R×N,∣⋅−⋅∣×d,L1⊗n),(\mathbb{R}\times \mathsf{N},\lvert\cdot-\cdot\rvert\times \mathsf{d},\mathcal{L}^1\otimes\mathfrak{n}),

where (N,d,n)(\mathsf{N},\mathsf{d},\mathfrak{n}) is an RCD(0,N−1)\mathsf{RCD}(0,N-1) 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.

References

Primary source

Mathias Braun, “New perspectives on the d'Alembertian from general relativity. An invitation”, arXiv:2501.19071 (2025).

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