Pre-compactness of globally hyperbolic spacetimes with Ricci lower bounds

Let (M,h)(M,h) be an nn-dimensional Riemannian manifold, and let gg be a Lorentzian metric such that (M,g)(M,g) is a globally hyperbolic spacetime. Write ric⁡(M,g)≥K\operatorname{ric}^{(M,g)}\geq K for the stated lower bound on the Ricci tensor, and let ℓ\ell denote the convergence used for Lorentzian spaces. Pre-compactness conjecture. The class

{(M,h,g):(M,g) is a globally hyperbolic spacetime, ric⁡(M,g)≥K}\left\{(M,h,g): (M,g)\text{ is a globally hyperbolic spacetime},\ \operatorname{ric}^{(M,g)}\geq K\right\}

is pre-compact with respect to ℓ\ell-convergence. This conjecture proposes extending the preceding pre-compactness theorem from smooth generalized cones to globally hyperbolic spacetimes under a full Ricci-tensor lower bound. Its resolution and the precise role of the auxiliary Riemannian metric hh are not supplied here.

References

Primary source

Christian Ketterer, “Convergence of Lorentzian spaces and curvature bounds for generalized cones”, arXiv:2605.11271 (2026).

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