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The causal order on the ambient boundary

Authors :
Kyriakos Papadopoulos
Ignatios Antoniadis
Spiros Cotsakis
Publication Year :
2016

Abstract

We analyse the causal structure of the ambient boundary, the conformal infinity of the ambient (Poincar\'e) metric. Using topological tools we show that the only causal relation compatible with the global topology of the boundary spacetime is the horismos order. This has important consequences for the notion of time in the conformal geometry of the ambient boundary.<br />Comment: 7 pages

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....f81a46480fdd124f49df05cbb1d1e2db