Large-scale geometric reconstruction conjecture for stably causal Lorentzian manifolds

Let MM be a stably causal Lorentzian manifold whose sectional curvatures are much less than 11, and let γ\gamma be a timelike curve from ss to tt in MM whose radius of curvature and length are large. In the causal site of Example~, consider the causal paths A1AmA_1 \prec \cdots \prec A_m such that each region AiA_i intersects γ\gamma. Large-scale geometric reconstruction conjecture. The proper length of γ\gamma is well approximated by the least upper bound of the lengths of these causal paths, with an error which is small compared to the length of γ\gamma. This conjecture asserts that causal sites retain large-scale geometric information about curved spacetimes: when curvature and the curve's radius of curvature are small relative to the Planck scale, causal-path lengths recover the curve's proper length up to a comparatively small error. The source provides no resolution of the conjecture.

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J. Daniel Christensen and Louis Crane, “Causal sites as quantum geometry”, arXiv:gr-qc/0410104 (2005).

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