Lorentzian warped-product timelike curvature equivalence

Let II be an interval, let FF be a metric space, and let ff be the warping function in the Lorentzian warped product I×fF-I\times_fF. Write

KF=sup{(f)2+Kf2}.K_F=\sup\{-(f')^2+Kf^2\}.

Lorentzian warped-product curvature conjecture. The Lorentzian warped product I×fF-I\times_fF has timelike CBB by KK if and only if ff is Kf-Kf-concave and FF has CBB by KFK_F. The forward implication is given as a theorem immediately before the conjecture; the conjectural content is the converse, whose status is not resolved in the source.

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Christian Ketterer, “Warped products and synthetic lower curvature bounds: an overview”, arXiv:2503.05521 (2025).

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