Bombelli's conjecture on Poisson reconstruction of distinguishing spacetimes
Bombelli's conjecture on Poisson reconstruction of distinguishing spacetimes
Let and be distinguishing finite-volume spacetimes. For each finite poset , consider independent samples from Poisson point processes on and , with the causal orders induced by the respective spacetimes.
Bombelli's conjecture. If, for every finite poset , the probabilities that the samples from and are order-isomorphic to coincide, then and are isometric.
This is a rigid version of the Hauptvermutung in causal set theory, where the statistical data of Poisson samples is intended to reconstruct the underlying spacetime. A rigorous mathematical formulation of the broader Hauptvermutung remains missing, and the conjecture is presented as a first step toward such a reconstruction theory.
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Mathias Braun and Clemens Sämann, “Gromov's reconstruction theorem and measured Gromov-Hausdorff convergence in Lorentzian geometry”, arXiv:2506.10852 (2025).
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