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Gr15 Exact Checked Sbierski Smooth Mghd Proof With Complete Local Prerequisites And Quotient Second Countability
1 · Prerequisites
- Abelian Categories
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- Absolute Continuity and the Sharp Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
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2 · Summary
This page carries the complete local closure of the smooth maximal-development theorem along Sbierski's dezornification route. It develops, from a single entry point, the definitions of developments and data-fixing isometries, the rigidity of isometric immersions, the maximal common development (MCD) of two developments and the analysis of its corresponding boundary points, the gluing of two developments along the MCD, the universal development of a family of developments, and the second countability of the total quotient by an explicit countable dense set. The closing physics theorem records the conditional model deduction; every other item is mathematics.
Developments, rigidity and the MCD. The solution class is fixed in Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality (developments, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings, maximality) and Common subdevelopments, maximal common developments and corresponding boundary points (common subdevelopments, maximal common developments, corresponding boundary points, and their side of the initial surface). The two structural inputs are the rigidity of isometric immersions of a connected Lorentzian manifold, Rigidity of isometric immersions of a connected Lorentzian manifold, and agreement of data-fixing embeddings on overlaps with the agreement clauses on the initial surface, and its consequence that a data-fixing isometric immersion of developments is automatically an embedding, A data-fixing isometric immersion of developments is injective, hence a development embedding; uniqueness of data-fixing embeddings. Causal convexity of a subdevelopment sharing the initial Cauchy surface is A development sharing the initial Cauchy surface with a larger development is causally convex in it, the portion-inextendibility device is A maximal connected portion of an inextendible causal curve inside an open subset is inextendible there, and the existence and uniqueness of the MCD is Existence and uniqueness of the maximal common development of two developments. The intersection of two developments sharing the initial surface is again a development, The intersection of two developments of the same data sharing the initial Cauchy surface is again a development.
Corresponding boundary structure. The boundary analysis proceeds through Structure of corresponding boundary points: achronality of the future boundary, equality of pasts, and uniqueness (chronology openness, achronality of the boundary, and uniqueness of the corresponding point), The set of boundary points with a corresponding point is open, and the extension preserves the metric, matter fields and connection on the common domain and its corresponding boundary (the corresponding set is open in the boundary and the embedding extends smoothly, with the batch's explicit corrections recorded in that item), the compactness input The causal past of a point truncated by the causal future of the initial Cauchy surface is compact, and the geodesic extension device Affine extension of geodesics confined to a compact set with finite auxiliary length, and the logarithmic speed bound with An exposed boundary point: the last boundary point of a boundary null geodesic has no other boundary point in its past, The exposed boundary point controls the complement: J^-(q) cap U^c cap J^+(Sigma) is confined to a prescribed neighbourhood, Time separation in a globally hyperbolic manifold: finiteness, existence of maximizing geodesics and the radial formula on causally convex normal regions and The spacelike restart surface at an exposed boundary point: maximizers on the boundary, the level hypersurface and its radial tube, which together show that a nonempty corresponding set forces a spacelike restart hypersurface and hence a strictly larger common development. The endpoint of this chain, A maximal common development has no corresponding boundary points: the spacelike restart produces a strictly larger common development, is Sbierski's Theorems 3.6 and 3.13: the MCD has empty corresponding set. The full topological partial-Cauchy toolkit is supplied separately by The causal domain of dependence of a partial Cauchy hypersurface is an open causally convex manifold on which the hypersurface is Cauchy. The restart comparison uses intrinsic smooth Cauchy neighborhoods of the whole surface and its image.
Gluing and the universal development. The pair quotient Gluing two developments along their maximal common development: the quotient is a development containing both glues two developments along their MCD into a development containing both; Existence of a universal development: the quotient of the set-sized family of canonical developments along pairwise maximal common developments glues the whole family of canonical developments into one Hausdorff smooth development which absorbs every development by a data-fixing development embedding, and proves second countability before constructing a global representative of the common future cones by a partition of unity. The standalone dense-set recursion A countable dense subset of the universal development by rational timelike exponential steps from a dense subset of the initial surface and the rational-exponential basis lemma An explicit rational-exponential basis for the universal development quotient also give separately reusable explicit countable constructions, using rational translated tangent balls on which the exponential is a diffeomorphism. The maximal globally hyperbolic development theorem itself, with its uniqueness clause and the universal property of the maximal development, is Existence and uniqueness of the smooth maximal globally hyperbolic development of constrained initial data in the selected matter sectors.
Physics packaging. Conditional model deduction: the adopted field law and matter model yield a maximal globally hyperbolic development of constraint-satisfying initial data states the conditional model deduction: within the adopted framework postulates, the Einstein-matter initial-value problem for one fixed admissible covariant coupled model with complete constrained data and actual local existence/geometric uniqueness/restart hypotheses has a maximal development, unique up to a unique data-fixing isometry, which is globally hyperbolic. Scope and empirical qualifications of the maximal globally hyperbolic development: model content, idealisations, and no observational claims records the scope qualifications: the theorem is a conditional consequence of the adopted postulates, it makes no empirical claim. Vacuum, scalar, strict barotropic fluid and nonnegative tilted geodesic dust with independently prescribed zero-density velocity are included; additional fixed models require the same actual mathematical obligations and explicitly adopted matter premises. Its hypotheses (constraint-satisfying data, the complete compatible matter data, the stated regularity and actual model admissibility) are not asserted to hold of nature.
The page uses the Axiom of Countable Choice for the countable atlas and dense-set selections and Dependent Choice where the constructions recurse; no other choice principle is used. The MCD and canonical-family constructions also use Power Set and Separation from the-zfc-axioms-and-basic-set-constructions to form sets of maps and developments. The global boundary extension uses the proper Whitney embedding, Euclidean tubular retraction and smooth partition-of-unity suppliers of whitney-embedding-tubular-neighbourhoods-and-approximation. These are actual prerequisite inputs alongside the GR14 local-development and restart results. The worked examples on the companion page gr-gr15-exact-checked-sbierski-smooth-mghd-proof-with-complete-local-prerequisites-and-quotient-second-countability-examples instantiate the maximal development, the common development, the restart hypersurface and the countable basis in Minkowski spacetime.
3 · Logical flowchart
4 · Definitions, postulates, theorems and proofs
Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality
Definition
Data. Fix , , a smooth three-manifold without boundary, a smooth Riemannian metric and smooth symmetric covariant -tensor . The normal convention is for the future unit normal. Specify one fixed covariant matter model, consisting of a finite list of smooth tensor fields , fixed equations and a fixed stress expression , with pullback by local diffeomorphisms commuting with the equations and stress. Fix its complete smooth Cauchy data : these determine all independent matter initial variables, not only the normal stress projections. Initial tensors with normal directions are specified on the abstract bundle with metric . In a development, identify with .
An admissible fixed coupled model is one satisfying the complete initialization, hyperbolic reduction, recovery and comparison hypotheses of Local geometric development for a fixed covariant Einstein-matter model with complete constrained data, or a specified independent local existence and uniqueness reduction such as the dust branch below. The same fixed model, complete data and admissibility conditions are used in every comparison and at every restart. Admissibility includes the applicability of its supplied complete-data local existence and geometric uniqueness theorem to the data realized on each spacelike restart surface of the compared solutions. This must be checked for the actual model and surface; it is not inferred from stress conservation. This class includes the following four concrete branches; they do not exhaust it.
- Vacuum: no matter fields, , and empty matter data.
- Scalar field: fix one smooth potential and one normalization . The field is , its equation is , its stress is the expression in The scalar-field matter model of the classical gravitational framework clause (c), and its complete data are with . The fixed potential has no sign restriction (Local Einstein-scalar evolution: smooth constrained data admit a local development, unique up to a data-fixing isometry).
- Strict barotropic fluid: fix a smooth EOS on an open interval with and . The fields are and future unit velocity , the stress is , and the equations are the continuity and Euler equations of The perfect-fluid matter model: rest energy density, pressure, four-velocity and stress-energy clause (c), with this fixed EOS. Complete data are , where and , equivalently the bundle velocity . No small-tilt restriction is imposed (Local evolution for a strict barotropic perfect fluid: smooth constrained data admit a development, unique up to a data-fixing isometry).
- Geodesic nonnegative dust: the fields are an energy-coefficient density and a smooth future unit timelike field , including on . Set and require both and everywhere. Complete data are , with and prescribed smooth future unit bundle velocity , equivalently arbitrary smooth subluminal tilt. On positive-density regions this is The dust matter model: rest density, four-velocity, stress-energy and dust system with its density parameter equal to . Through empty regions the geodesic velocity is separately prescribed and matched; conservation of stress alone is not substituted for this full system. For a fixed , the mass-normalized theorem Local Einstein-dust evolution: smooth constrained data with prescribed velocity admit a smooth local development, unique up to a data-fixing isometry applies with and reconstructs .
Require the constraints for the initial stress computed from this complete data on : These use the convention of Gauss-Codazzi decomposition in Gaussian normal coordinates and the constraint equations in terms of the induced metric and second fundamental form. Equality of data includes equality of the model, constants, potential or EOS, and every component of .
The local Cauchy-development and uniqueness suppliers for vacuum, scalar and strict fluid are the fixed-model theorem Local geometric development for a fixed covariant Einstein-matter model with complete constrained data and the two concrete branch theorems above. Its harmonic route requires the same fixed extraction/reconstruction rules and smooth symmetric-hyperbolic coefficient family for every compared physical solution, a positive time matrix on an admissible open state set, complete compatible initialization from , propagation of auxiliary compatibility with recovery of the full matter equations on the reduced solution, and stress conservation on that reduced solution before Einstein recovery. These are the three explicit hypotheses of that theorem; conservation alone does not supply a Cauchy evolution law. Dust uses its independent common-flow/parallel-frame initialization, hyperbolic reduction, subsidiary recovery and uniqueness of Local Einstein-dust evolution: smooth constrained data with prescribed velocity admit a smooth local development, unique up to a data-fixing isometry, rather than being asserted to satisfy the harmonic metric-first-derivative matter contract. Countable Choice and Dependent Choice are carried wherever these local theorems are invoked. Every additional fixed coupled model must supply the same complete-data local existence, admissibility, recovery and uniqueness obligations before it is used. This definition makes no local or global existence assertion.
(a) Development. A development of this data is a tuple consisting of:
- a time-oriented smooth Lorentzian four-manifold (Smooth time-oriented Lorentzian four-manifolds: the geometric objects of the model);
- a smooth embedding whose image is a spacelike embedded hypersurface (Spacelike hypersurfaces, acausal sets, Cauchy sets, domains of dependence and Cauchy horizons clause (a));
- the smooth tensor fields of the fixed model over ;
- the equations on : with the Einstein tensor of (The Riemann curvature operator and the derived Ricci, scalar and Einstein tensors) and ;
- the initial condition on : is a Cauchy set of in the sense of Spacelike hypersurfaces, acausal sets, Cauchy sets, domains of dependence and Cauchy horizons clause (c), that is, every inextendible causal curve of Causal curves, chronological and causal reachability, and inextendibility meets in exactly one parameter value;
- the induced data: , the second fundamental form of with respect to the future unit normal equals in the convention of The future unit normal, induced metric and second fundamental form of a spacelike hypersurface, and the initial data of on transported by equal .
No completeness of , no inextendibility of , and no claim that the equations hold beyond are part of the definition. Whether a development is globally hyperbolic is not part of the definition either; by clause 5 it follows from The existence of a Cauchy set implies strong causality and compact causal diamonds.
(b) Data-fixing isometry. A data-fixing isometry between developments and of the same data is a smooth diffeomorphism such that
- ;
- for every : the isometry carries the future cone of onto that of ;
- ;
- , with the natural pullback action on every listed tensor type (and the inverse differential on contravariant slots). Equality includes every listed field, including the prescribed dust velocity at zero density.
(c) Development embedding. A development embedding of into is a smooth map that is a diffeomorphism onto an open subset of and satisfies clauses (b)1-4. Development embeddings are isometric immersions by clause (b)1.
(d) Maximality. A development of the given data is maximal when for every development of the same data there exists a development embedding . A maximal development is also called a maximal globally hyperbolic development of the data.
(e) Scope. This is a mathematical definition of the solution class used by the Cauchy problem. The physical reading of and and the status of as initial data of a model of nature are supplied by the framework postulates of the physics library, not here; and no existence, uniqueness or maximality assertion is made by this definition.
Remarks
Two developments of the same data are compared only through maps that fix the initial manifold pointwise (clause (b)3), so a data-fixing isometry is determined by its action away from only after its action on is prescribed. The direction of a development embedding is from the smaller development to the larger one: clause (d) embeds every development into a maximal one.
The field represents the future cone and is not an additional dynamical field. Replacing it by any smooth timelike field in the same future cone does not change which maps are data-fixing. An isometry preserving that cone carries the future unit normal of the initial surface to the future unit normal of its image; no equality between the arbitrary representing fields is needed.
Common subdevelopments, maximal common developments and corresponding boundary points
Definition
Let and be two developments of the same data in the sense of Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality.
(a) Common subdevelopment. A common subdevelopment of and is a pair in which
- is an open subset with such that the restriction is a development of the same data (with the induced field equations on the open submanifold ); and
- is a development embedding in the sense of Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (c).
Here "the induced field equations on " means the equations of clause (a)4 of Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality restricted to ; the induced Lorentzian manifold is with the time orientation (Smooth time-oriented Lorentzian four-manifolds: the geometric objects of the model).
(b) Maximal common development. A common subdevelopment is a maximal common development (MCD) of and when for every common subdevelopment one has and . Existence is not asserted by this definition; it is proved in Existence and uniqueness of the maximal common development of two developments.
(c) Corresponding boundary points. Let be a common subdevelopment. Its corresponding boundary points are pairs , where the boundaries are taken in and in respectively, such that for every open neighbourhood of in and every open neighbourhood of in there is with .
(d) Side of the initial surface. Write and . For a corresponding pair , openness of and of implies and . The Cauchy-set trichotomy of Cauchy sets are closed, split the manifold into past, set and future, and are locally Lipschitz graphs clause (a) puts each boundary point in exactly one chronological side. These sides are open because , and each point future and past is open by Openness of the chronological future and past, openness of the chronological relation, and closure of future and past sets clause (a); the same argument applies in . For , its ambient and intrinsic sides agree: the trichotomy in gives an intrinsic timelike curve between and in one direction, and that curve is also an ambient curve; the disjoint ambient trichotomy excludes the other direction. The development embedding preserves these curves and the initial surface, so corresponding interior points have matching ambient sides in and . Choose neighbourhoods of contained in their respective sides. Condition (c) supplies an interior witness in both neighbourhoods under ; hence the two sides must match. Every witness for neighbourhoods contained in these sides then has this same sign. Thus the pair lies either to the future of both initial surfaces or to their past, with no cofinal witnesses of the opposite sign. The future case is used below; the past case is its time reverse.
(e) Scope. These are mathematical relations between two fixed developments and their boundary points. Neither the existence of boundary points, nor the existence of a common subdevelopment with nonempty boundary, nor uniqueness of a corresponding point, is asserted here.
Remarks
Clause (a) realises the common development as a subset of , breaking the symmetry between and ; this is the convention of Sbierski's second variant, chosen because the construction below patches maps on subsets of a fixed ambient development. Clause (c) is the definition of a corresponding boundary pair; the equivalent characterisation by timelike curves is proved, not assumed, in Structure of corresponding boundary points: achronality of the future boundary, equality of pasts, and uniqueness.
A development sharing the initial Cauchy surface with a larger development is causally convex in it
Statement
Assume Countable Choice and Dependent Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (), The axiom of dependent choice: a relation in which every element is related to something admits an -indexed chain) for the supplied causal-calculus and Cauchy-side results used below.
Let and be as in Common subdevelopments, maximal common developments and corresponding boundary points clause (a): is a development of the given data, is open with , and with the restricted fields is again a development of the same data. Write , and compute , and in (Causal curves, chronological and causal reachability, and inextendibility). Then:
(a) Past convexity within the future of . For every future causal curve with and one has .
(b) Future convexity within the past of . For every future causal curve with and one has .
(c) Segments with endpoints in . For every future causal curve with one has .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: a development , an open with such that is a development of the same data, and a future causal curve as in the clause under consideration.
Development and subdevelopment data: is a Cauchy set of and of (Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (a)5, Common subdevelopments, maximal common developments and corresponding boundary points clause (a)); consequently both are causal: a nonconstant closed causal segment can be repeated indefinitely to give a no-limit inextendible causal curve, which either misses the Cauchy set or meets it at infinitely many parameters, both impossible. The Cauchy side decomposition under the stated supplier hypotheses supplies every level relation holds (Cauchy sets are closed, split the manifold into past, set and future, and are locally Lipschitz graphs clause (a)).
Maximal geodesics in an open Lorentzian submanifold: for every in the Lorentzian manifold and every nonzero causal , the unique maximal geodesic with , is future-directed causal when is, and does not converge to any point of as or as (The geodesic initial-value problem and the exponential map of the metric-selected connection clause (a), Convergent causal ends are extendible, maximal geodesics have no limit, and Cauchy sets are acausal clause (b)).
Gluing and regularity of causal curves: the concatenation of two future causal curves at a common endpoint value is a future causal curve, and a causal curve is continuous on its interval (Chart independence, concatenation, reparametrization and transitivity for causal curves, Causal curves, chronological and causal reachability, and inextendibility, Continuity of at a point of and on : the - condition, its agreement with at a limit point, and continuity at an isolated point, Intervals of : the nine order-convex forms, nondegeneracy, and length).
Push-up: implies , so whenever (The push-up rule: p << q and q <= r imply p << r, together with the timelike-piece criterion clause (a)).
Causality of causal curves: a future causal curve whose values at two distinct parameters coincide contains a nonconstant closed future causal curve, which is excluded by [L1]; hence is injective, and two distinct points of are never causally related (Cauchy sets are closed, split the manifold into past, set and future, and are locally Lipschitz graphs clause (a)). No choice principle beyond the stated supplier premises is used in this item.
Proof
(Setup and the maximal portion of in .) Let be a future causal curve with and , and suppose for contradiction that . Since is continuous [L3] and is open, is relatively open in and contains and ; let be the connected component of containing . Then for some , and while ; moreover because .
(A causal curve in that meets exactly once.) The restriction is a future causal curve in (Common subdevelopments, maximal common developments and corresponding boundary points clause (a)); as from above, , so does not converge to a point of at its past end, while at its future end it converges to . Choose a future-directed timelike (it exists because is a time orientation); by [L2] there is a future-directed causal geodesic maximal in with and , and converges to no point of at its future end. Define on the interval obtained by gluing and at by for and for . By [L3] is a future causal curve in ; at its past end it does not converge in (limit ) and at its future end it does not converge in ([L2]), so is inextendible in ; since is a Cauchy set of ([L1]), meets in exactly one parameter value.
(Clause (b) in the fixed time orientation.) Let be future causal with and , and suppose it leaves . The component of containing is for some , with . Choose a future timelike maximal geodesic in through , and concatenate its past half ending at with . The resulting future causal curve is inextendible in : its past geodesic end has no limit there by [L2], and its future end converges in to . Every point on the geodesic half is in by push-up from ; every point of is in , since the remaining segment reaches and [L1] gives the Cauchy-set trichotomy and acausality. Thus this inextendible causal curve in misses , contradicting the Cauchy property in [L1]. This proves (b) without changing or the matter data.
(The image of lies in .) For : is the endpoint of the future causal segment started at , so ; if then the distinct points would be causally related, contradicting [L5], so and hence by [L1]. For : , and ; by push-up [L4] , so . Thus , which is disjoint from .
(Contradiction and conclusion of (a).) By step 2.1 the causal curve of step 1.2 misses , contradicting its established property of meeting exactly once. Hence , which is clause (a).
(Clause (c).) Let have both endpoints in . [step 3.1, step 1.3, L1, L3, L4, L5, algebra] If , there is nothing to prove. Otherwise use the disjoint trichotomy of [L1]. If both endpoints are in , choose a future timelike curve from a point of to and concatenate it with ; clause (a) applies to this entire curve ending at . If both endpoints are in , choose a future timelike curve from to a point of and append it to . Clause (b) applies to that concatenation, starting at . In either case its restriction lies in . A future causal curve cannot go from to , or from to : push-up would give a chronological relation between points of , contradicting [L1]. Both endpoints on are excluded for a nonconstant segment by [L5]. If the first endpoint lies on and the second in , apply (a); if the first lies in and the second on , apply (b). The remaining case has endpoints in and . Continuity and connectedness force an intermediate value , for otherwise the image would lie in the disjoint open union of those two sides. Apply (b) to and (a) to . Thus every allowable case gives , proving (c).
Remarks
Clause (a) is the exact convexity used in Rigidity of isometric immersions of a connected Lorentzian manifold, and agreement of data-fixing embeddings on overlaps and Existence and uniqueness of the maximal common development of two developments: it says that a subdevelopment cannot be entered and left along a causal segment from the common initial surface. The proof uses maximal geodesics of the open submanifold only as a device that makes the portion of in inextendible there; no geodesic completeness and no maximality of among developments is assumed.
A maximal connected portion of an inextendible causal curve inside an open subset is inextendible there
Statement
Let be a time-oriented smooth Lorentzian four-manifold (Smooth time-oriented Lorentzian four-manifolds: the geometric objects of the model), let be open subsets with the induced metric and time orientation, and let be a future causal curve (Causal curves, chronological and causal reachability, and inextendibility) that is inextendible in the Lorentzian manifold : does not converge to any point of as its parameter tends to either end of (clause (d) of Causal curves, chronological and causal reachability, and inextendibility, read with ambient set ). Let be a connected component of Then , regarded as a future causal curve in the Lorentzian manifold with the restricted fields, is inextendible in .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: open sets , a future causal curve inextendible in , and a connected component of .
Regularity and components: a future causal curve is locally absolutely continuous, hence continuous on its interval (Causal curves, chronological and causal reachability, and inextendibility, Chart independence, concatenation, reparametrization and transitivity for causal curves, Continuity of at a point of and on : the - condition, its agreement with at a limit point, and continuity at an isolated point, Intervals of : the nine order-convex forms, nondegeneracy, and length); therefore is relatively open in and each of its connected components is of the form for some in .
Inextendibility: for a future causal curve on an interval in a Lorentzian manifold , and for a real interval with (respectively ) finite, the curve is future-inextendible (respectively past-inextendible) exactly when it does not converge to a point of as the parameter tends to that end; at an unbounded end, it is one-sided inextendible exactly when it does not converge as the parameter tends to or (Causal curves, chronological and causal reachability, and inextendibility clause (d)). Convergence to a point and convergence to the same point are the same condition, since and are open subsets of the same manifold.
No choice principle is used in this item.
Proof
(Ends of a component.) Let be the component of [L1]. If then and : otherwise with open would make contain a relative neighbourhood of in , so that would extend strictly to the left of , contradicting that is a component. Similarly, if then and .
(The left end.) Suppose (finite and in the domain). By step 1.1, as along ; since limits in the ambient manifold are unique, does not converge to any point of at its past end. Suppose instead that with finite or , and that converged to some as . Then , so would converge to the point of its ambient manifold at its past end, contradicting the hypothesis that is inextendible in by [L2]. Hence in both cases does not converge to a point of at its past end.
(The right end.) The same argument with and in place of and , and with "past" replaced by "future", shows that does not converge to a point of at its future end.
(Conclusion.) The restricted curve has image in , is locally absolutely continuous, and has causal velocity almost everywhere, so it is a future causal curve of the Lorentzian manifold ([L1]); by steps 2.1 and 3.1 it converges to no point of at either end, so by [L2] it is inextendible in . This is the assertion.
Remarks
The ambient inextendibility assumption is used when a component reaches an end of the original domain. At a finite interior endpoint of a component, continuity supplies an ambient value outside the open subset, so Hausdorff uniqueness rules out a limit inside that subset. These are distinct cases; no continuation through a point outside the subset is claimed to stay within it.
Rigidity of isometric immersions of a connected Lorentzian manifold, and agreement of data-fixing embeddings on overlaps
Statement
Throughout, for a smooth map between smooth Lorentzian four-manifolds write when for all and ; such a map is an isometric immersion (Smooth time-oriented Lorentzian four-manifolds: the geometric objects of the model, and smooth maps between smooth manifolds). Let be the metric-selected connections (Metric compatibility, torsion freedom and the metric-selected connection class, Existence and uniqueness of the metric-selected connection of a nondegenerate metric, and its extension to tensor fields) and let geodesics and exponential maps be those of The geodesic initial-value problem and the exponential map of the metric-selected connection.
(a) Rigidity. Let be connected and let be isometric immersions with and for some . Then , that is, and for every .
(b) Data-fixing embeddings have equal differentials on the initial surface. Let , and be as in Common subdevelopments, maximal common developments and corresponding boundary points clause (a), and let be development embeddings in the sense of Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (c). Then at every point of .
(c) Agreement on overlaps. Assume Countable Choice and Dependent Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (), The axiom of dependent choice: a relation in which every element is related to something admits an -indexed chain) for the supplied causal-convexity and Cauchy-side arguments in this clause. Let and be developments of the same data, and let and be common subdevelopments in the sense of Common subdevelopments, maximal common developments and corresponding boundary points clause (a). Then on .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: the maps and developments of the clause under consideration, with their metric-selected connections.
Local metric matrices and their associated coefficients: in a source chart and a target chart , write and for the smooth nondegenerate metric matrices and and for their inverses. Indices run from to and repeated indices are summed. Define the smooth coordinate arrays and by the corresponding target formula. These are finite matrix constructions; no theorem about constructing a global tangent-bundle smooth structure, connection, geodesic or exponential map is applied in clauses (a) or (b). The connection/geodesic references in the Statement fix the usual terminology; the proof below instead obtains its needed local identity directly from and differentiation (Smooth time-oriented Lorentzian four-manifolds: the geometric objects of the model, and smooth maps between smooth manifolds).
Development data and convexity: is a Cauchy set of and of ; ; a causal curve in with endpoints in stays in ; and means that a timelike curve in from to exists (Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (a)5, Cauchy sets are closed, split the manifold into past, set and future, and are locally Lipschitz graphs clause (a), A development sharing the initial Cauchy surface with a larger development is causally convex in it clause (c), Causal curves, chronological and causal reachability, and inextendibility clause (c), The push-up rule: p << q and q <= r imply p << r, together with the timelike-piece criterion).
Agreement on the surface: development embeddings satisfy and preserve the time orientation; since is spacelike with a unique future unit normal, and carry that normal to the future unit normal of , so their differentials agree on for every (Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clauses (b)-(c), The future unit normal, induced metric and second fundamental form of a spacelike hypersurface, Spacelike hypersurfaces, acausal sets, Cauchy sets, domains of dependence and Cauchy horizons clause (a)).
Clauses (a) and (b) use only local metric matrices, differentiation and finite-dimensional estimates, with no choice principle; clause (c) retains the stated choice premises of its causal-convexity and Cauchy-side suppliers.
Proof
(The coordinate identity for the first differential.) In the charts of [L1], write and . The equation makes invertible: if , then for all , so . Put and . The target coefficient formula gives . Differentiating the metric identity therefore gives . Since , adding this identity with indices and and subtracting the one with indices yields . Thus and . This follows from finite algebra and the smooth metric identity, without an application of the choice-bearing connection or geodesic suppliers.
(The agreement set of (a).) Let . Then by hypothesis, so .
( is closed.) Let lie in the closure of . Since is Hausdorff, if there are disjoint neighborhoods of these values; their inverse images have an open intersection containing and missing , a contradiction. Thus . Choose a source chart around and a target chart around , shrinking so both . The coordinate maps are smooth. On their values and their by derivative matrices agree. Each entry of is continuous, so a nonzero entry at would have a neighborhood disjoint from , contradicting . Hence . The invertible chart differentials identify these matrices with , giving . Thus and is closed.
(Clause (b).) Differentiating makes the differentials equal on . The orthogonal complement of this positive definite three-plane in a Lorentzian four-space is a negative definite line, so it has exactly one future unit vector ; the target plane likewise has a unique future unit vector . The invertible linear isometries carry the source plane to the target plane and preserve future cones, hence carry to . Every tangent vector has a unique decomposition into a surface-tangent vector and a multiple of ; thus on . This is pointwise finite-dimensional linear algebra and uses no construction of a global normal field or connection.
(Every component of meets .) Let . By [L4] lies in one of , , ; if its component already meets ; if , choose a future timelike curve in from a point of to ([L4]); by convexity of and of (A development sharing the initial Cauchy surface with a larger development is causally convex in it clauses (a) and (c), applied to the causal curve and to any subsegment with endpoints in ) , so lies in the same component of as a point of ; the case is the time reverse.
( is open without geodesic existence.) Let . Choose charts and with and , and shrink to a source coordinate ball so both are defined there. By continuity shrink further so the pairs lie in a fixed compact convex ball about their common pair at , with the target-coordinate projection of contained in 's domain. For set , . Step 1.1 gives and , a common system with . The right side is smooth near , so its derivative in has a finite bound there; integration along the straight segment in the convex set gives . If equality holds at the start of an interval with , the ordinary fundamental theorem of calculus implies , where ; hence . A finite subdivision of into such intervals proves throughout (if one interval suffices). In particular and for every . Thus , and is open. Only uniqueness of these already supplied smooth coordinate curves was proved; no selections of solutions are needed.
(Conclusion of (a).) is connected and is nonempty, open and closed by the preceding steps; hence , which is the assertion of (a).
(The agreement set of (c).) Let be the set of points at which and ; on the maps have equal values by [L5] and equal differentials by clause (b), so . The set is open in by the argument of step 2.1 applied to coordinate balls contained in the open set , and closed by the argument of step 1.3.
(Conclusion of (c).) Since is open and closed in and meets every component of by step 1.5, ; hence on , which is clause (c).
Remarks
Clause (a) is Sbierski's Lemma 3.1 and clause (c) his Corollary 3.2; the connectedness hypothesis of (a) is essential (on a disjoint union of three Minkowski copies, the identity and the isometry that fixes the first copy and exchanges the other two have equal value and differential at every point of the first copy but differ elsewhere). Clause (c) is what makes the patched map of Existence and uniqueness of the maximal common development of two developments well defined on overlaps.
A data-fixing isometric immersion of developments is injective, hence a development embedding; uniqueness of data-fixing embeddings
Statement
Retain the inherited Axiom of Countable Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice ()) of the Lorentzian-object and geodesic suppliers. Let and be developments of the same data in the sense of Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (a), with and . Let be a smooth map with , with for every , with and (so is a future isometric immersion fixing the complete data and matching every matter field). Then:
(a) is an isomorphism for every ;
(b) is injective, hence a diffeomorphism onto the open subset and therefore a development embedding in the sense of Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (c);
(c) if is connected and are two such data-fixing isometric immersions, then ; in particular every data-fixing self-isometry of a connected development is the identity of .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Countable Choice, developments , of the same data and a data-fixing isometric immersion as in the statement.
Countable Choice says that for every sequence of nonempty sets there is a function with for every (The Axiom of Countable Choice ()). It is inherited through the tangent-bundle smooth structure in Smooth time-oriented Lorentzian four-manifolds: the geometric objects of the model clause (c), Metric compatibility, torsion freedom and the metric-selected connection class, and the geodesic existence and uniqueness theorem The geodesic initial-value problem and the exponential map of the metric-selected connection ([L3] and its choice convention). No local discharge of these supplier assumptions is claimed. Only clause (b) of Convergent causal ends are extendible, maximal geodesics have no limit, and Cauchy sets are acausal and clauses (a)-(b) of Rigidity of isometric immersions of a connected Lorentzian manifold, and agreement of data-fixing embeddings on overlaps are used; their separately scoped Dependent Choice premises for the other clauses are not invoked.
Cauchy data: is a Cauchy set of and a Cauchy set of ; is the diffeomorphism ; every maximal geodesic of with nonzero causal initial data is a causal curve that is inextendible in , and it meets in exactly one parameter value (Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (a), Spacelike hypersurfaces, acausal sets, Cauchy sets, domains of dependence and Cauchy horizons clause (c), Convergent causal ends are extendible, maximal geodesics have no limit, and Cauchy sets are acausal clause (b), Causal curves, chronological and causal reachability, and inextendibility clause (d)).
Metric nondegeneracy and dimension: and are nondegenerate symmetric bilinear forms of signature on four-dimensional tangent spaces; if satisfies then for every , so by nondegeneracy (Lorentz forms of inertia (3,1,0) on a 4-dimensional real vector space, Smooth time-oriented Lorentzian four-manifolds: the geometric objects of the model clause (a)); consequently is injective, and it is an isomorphism because both tangent spaces have dimension .
Isometric immersions map geodesics to geodesics with velocity . In source and target coordinates, step 1.1 of Rigidity of isometric immersions of a connected Lorentzian manifold, and agreement of data-fixing embeddings on overlaps gives . For a source coordinate geodesic , substitution of into the second derivative of cancels the source terms and gives the target geodesic equation. Under [A1], The geodesic initial-value problem and the exponential map of the metric-selected connection clause (a) and proof step 3.1 supply the unique maximal target geodesic with prescribed value and velocity, and every geodesic with those data is its restriction. Timelike speed and time orientation remain constant along each geodesic by Covariant differentiation along curves: metric pairing, parallel transport and geodesic speed clause 3 and proof step 3.2.
An isomorphism of tangent spaces gives a local diffeomorphism by The smooth inverse function theorem on manifolds.
Future data-fixing development embeddings have identical initial differentials by Rigidity of isometric immersions of a connected Lorentzian manifold, and agreement of data-fixing embeddings on overlaps clause (b), and isometric immersions obey its connected-domain rigidity clause (a). The identity map satisfies Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (b).
Beyond the inherited Countable Choice of [A1], the argument makes only finite pointwise selections; it assumes neither Dependent Choice nor arbitrary-index Choice.
Proof
(Reduction to injectivity at two points.) Let with . We show . By [L2] the differential is an isomorphism, so restricts to a diffeomorphism of some open neighbourhood of onto an open neighbourhood of .
(Two geodesics through and through .) Choose a future-directed timelike vector . By [L1] and [L3] there is a maximal geodesic of with , , which is a timelike curve, is inextendible in , and meets in exactly one parameter value . Its image is a geodesic of with and velocity ; since is an isomorphism, define , a timelike vector, and let be the maximal geodesic of with , ; it is timelike, inextendible in , and meets in exactly one parameter value .
(The two image geodesics are the same maximal geodesic of .) By [L3] both and are geodesics of ; at parameter both have value and velocity . Let be the maximal geodesic of with , ([L3]). By uniqueness of maximal geodesics, , , and .
(The initial-surface crossing parameters coincide.) By step 1.3 and [L1], and , with and . The geodesic has timelike velocity, hence is a causal curve, and by [L3] it is inextendible in ; since is a Cauchy set of ([L1]), the parameter set has exactly one element. Hence and .
(Equal points and velocities on .) By step 2.1, with both arguments in ; since is injective ([L1]), . Differentiating at gives , and is injective by [L2], so . Hence and are maximal geodesics with the same value and velocity at ; by uniqueness [L3] they agree on the intersection of their intervals, which contains , so .
(Clauses (a) and (b).) Clause (a) is [L2]. For clause (b): step 3.1 shows that is injective; by clause (a) and the inverse function theorem on manifolds, is a local diffeomorphism, hence an open map, so is open in and is a bijective local diffeomorphism, hence a diffeomorphism; it satisfies the remaining clauses of a development embedding by hypothesis.
(Clause (c).) Let be data-fixing isometric immersions and let be connected. By clause (b), already proved in step 4.1, both maps are development embeddings. The pair is a common subdevelopment of and , so the embedding-only hypotheses of Rigidity of isometric immersions of a connected Lorentzian manifold, and agreement of data-fixing embeddings on overlaps clause (b) hold for and both maps. At they have the same value and the same differential; hence by rigidity (clause (a) of that lemma) on . Taking (which is data-fixing by Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (b)) gives the self-isometry statement.
Remarks
Clause (b) shows that in the definition of an extension of a development one need not require the map to be an embedding: a data-fixing isometric immersion is automatically one. Clause (c) is the uniqueness used at the end of Existence and uniqueness of the smooth maximal globally hyperbolic development of constrained initial data in the selected matter sectors; its connectedness hypothesis is the one of Rigidity of isometric immersions of a connected Lorentzian manifold, and agreement of data-fixing embeddings on overlaps clause (a).
Existence and uniqueness of the maximal common development of two developments
Statement
Assume Countable Choice and Dependent Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (), The axiom of dependent choice: a relation in which every element is related to something admits an -indexed chain). Let and be developments of the same data in the sense of Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (a), with . Then there exist and such that:
(a) is a common subdevelopment of and in the sense of Common subdevelopments, maximal common developments and corresponding boundary points clause (a);
(b) for every common subdevelopment of and one has and ; in particular is a maximal common development in the sense of clause (b) of that definition, and it contains ;
(c) uniqueness: if also satisfies (a) and (b), then and .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Countable Choice, Dependent Choice, two developments , of the same data, with Cauchy in both.
Common subdevelopments form a set: a common subdevelopment is a pair with and ; since is an element of the power set of and the graph of is an element of the power set of , the collection of all common subdevelopments is a set by separation (The power set , The Axiom Schema of Separation: for each formula , ).
Restriction and gluing of development data: each is open, is a development of the same data with the restricted fields, and is a development embedding, hence in particular an isometric immersion fixing the data and the time orientation (Common subdevelopments, maximal common developments and corresponding boundary points clause (a), Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clauses (b)-(c)).
Agreement on overlaps is Rigidity of isometric immersions of a connected Lorentzian manifold, and agreement of data-fixing embeddings on overlaps clause (c). Nonemptiness follows from the local complete-data uniqueness theorem for the selected fixed model: the admissible fixed coupled-model theorem Local geometric development for a fixed covariant Einstein-matter model with complete constrained data (including its vacuum instance), Local Einstein-scalar evolution: smooth constrained data admit a local development, unique up to a data-fixing isometry, Local evolution for a strict barotropic perfect fluid: smooth constrained data admit a development, unique up to a data-fixing isometry or a specified independent reduction, including the tilted nonnegative dust theorem Local Einstein-dust evolution: smooth constrained data with prescribed velocity admit a smooth local development, unique up to a data-fixing isometry. With their Countable Choice and Dependent Choice assumptions, two developments agree near the entire initial surface by a future data-fixing isometry matching all matter fields. Apply the intrinsic Cauchy-neighborhood construction Local Cauchy neighborhoods in a conically bounded product chart to a smaller common isometry collar, and transport that neighborhood by the isometry. Its source and image have the entire initial surface Cauchy, so this restriction is a common subdevelopment.
Portion inextendibility and Cauchy property: if a causal curve is inextendible in , then for every component of its preimage under one of the sets the restriction is inextendible in (A maximal connected portion of an inextendible causal curve inside an open subset is inextendible there); and every causal curve inextendible in meets in exactly one parameter value (Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (a)5).
Two crossings in the ambient development: if a causal curve in met in two distinct parameter values, then by the segment-extension clause the compact segment between them lies on an inextendible causal curve of meeting twice, contradicting that is a Cauchy set of (Convergent causal ends are extendible, maximal geodesics have no limit, and Cauchy sets are acausal clause (c), Spacelike hypersurfaces, acausal sets, Cauchy sets, domains of dependence and Cauchy horizons clause (c), Causal curves, chronological and causal reachability, and inextendibility).
Local differential geometry on : a map whose restriction to an open cover of its domain is a smooth isometric immersion is a smooth isometric immersion, and the field equations of Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (a)4 are local, so they hold on ; injectivity of a data-fixing isometric immersion of developments follows from A data-fixing isometric immersion of developments is injective, hence a development embedding; uniqueness of data-fixing embeddings clause (b).
Proof
(The union and the patched map.) Let be the set of all common subdevelopments, which exists by [L1] and is nonempty by [L3]. Put , an open subset of containing ; define by for . This is well defined by [L3]: if , then .
( is a development with Cauchy surface .) Let be a future causal curve inextendible in , choose with , and let be the connected component of containing . By [L4] the restriction is inextendible in and therefore meets in exactly one parameter value of ; hence meets at least once. If it met at two distinct parameter values, then by [L5] applied in this would contradict that is a Cauchy set of ; hence meets in exactly one parameter value, and the same holds for past causal curves by the time reverse. Thus is a development of the same data: it is a time-oriented smooth Lorentzian four-manifold with a spacelike embedded hypersurface (as is open in ), the field equations hold by [L6], the induced data are those of and , and is Cauchy by the above.
( is a data-fixing development embedding.) By [L2] each is an isometric immersion fixing the data and the time orientation; these are local properties, so is a smooth isometric immersion with and for every , matching every matter field by [L2]. Hence is a data-fixing isometric immersion of the development into ; by [L6] it is injective and therefore a data-fixing development embedding. So is a common subdevelopment, which is clause (a).
(Universality.) Every satisfies by definition of the union, and by definition of ; in particular the pair satisfies the universal property of clause (b), and by step 1.1.
(Uniqueness.) Let also satisfy (a) and (b). Since is itself one of the common subdevelopments, (b) applied to gives ; conversely (b) for applied to gives . Hence , and then for every the two maps agree because lies in some common subdevelopment and both and restrict to there. This is clause (c).
Remarks
The construction is Sbierski's; the only structural ingredients are the agreement of the maps on overlaps (Rigidity of isometric immersions of a connected Lorentzian manifold, and agreement of data-fixing embeddings on overlaps clause (c)), the fact that a maximal connected portion of an inextendible curve inside one member remains inextendible there (A maximal connected portion of an inextendible causal curve inside an open subset is inextendible there), and the acyclicity of "two crossings of a Cauchy set" (Convergent causal ends are extendible, maximal geodesics have no limit, and Cauchy sets are acausal clause (c)). No Zorn's lemma and no selection of representatives of isometry classes is used.
Structure of corresponding boundary points: achronality of the future boundary, equality of pasts, and uniqueness
Statement
Assume Countable Choice and Dependent Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (), The axiom of dependent choice: a relation in which every element is related to something admits an -indexed chain).
Let and be developments of the same data and let be a common subdevelopment in the sense of Common subdevelopments, maximal common developments and corresponding boundary points clause (a). Write , , and . Then:
(a) is achronal in , and is achronal in .
(b) Let and be corresponding boundary points to the future of the initial surface. Then and for every also
(c) Let and be corresponding. If is a future timelike curve with as , then as . Moreover has at most one corresponding boundary point.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Countable Choice and Dependent Choice; two fixed developments of the same fixed model and initial data, a common subdevelopment , and the corresponding points or curves in the stated clause. All causal relations are ambient unless a subscript states otherwise.
The common initial surface is Cauchy in , and ; the developments are globally hyperbolic, hence causal and strongly causal, with closed causal relation. Each manifold splits into its chronological past of the initial surface, the initial surface, and its chronological future; the initial surface lies in the open common subdevelopment (Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality, Common subdevelopments, maximal common developments and corresponding boundary points, The existence of a Cauchy set implies strong causality and compact causal diamonds, In a globally hyperbolic manifold the causal relation is closed and truncated causal cones over compact sets are compact, Cauchy sets are closed, split the manifold into past, set and future, and are locally Lipschitz graphs). The global-hyperbolicity and closed-relation suppliers require the stated choice assumptions.
Chronology is open in each point and as a relation; causal relations are transitive, and implies . A future timelike curve has strictly chronologically ordered values at different parameters (Openness of the chronological future and past, openness of the chronological relation, and closure of future and past sets, The push-up rule: p << q and q <= r imply p << r, together with the timelike-piece criterion, Chart independence, concatenation, reparametrization and transitivity for causal curves, Causal curves, chronological and causal reachability, and inextendibility).
Every causal curve from the initial surface to a future point of lies in ; every causal segment with both endpoints in lies in . The corresponding past-side statements hold by time reversal (A development sharing the initial Cauchy surface with a larger development is causally convex in it). The same applies to in because the image common subdevelopment is again a development of the same data.
is a diffeomorphism preserving metric, time orientation and the common initial embedding. It carries timelike curves lying entirely in to timelike curves, and its inverse has the same properties. Correspondence is symmetric under reversing the two developments (Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality, Common subdevelopments, maximal common developments and corresponding boundary points, Rigidity of isometric immersions of a connected Lorentzian manifold, and agreement of data-fixing embeddings on overlaps).
Through every point there are arbitrarily short future and past timelike geodesic segments, whose squared velocity and time orientation stay constant (The geodesic initial-value problem and the exponential map of the metric-selected connection, Covariant differentiation along curves: metric pairing, parallel transport and geodesic speed). Smooth coordinate neighborhoods give a countable neighborhood basis for taking limits (Smooth time-oriented Lorentzian four-manifolds: the geometric objects of the model).
Strong causality supplies arbitrarily small open causal-convex neighborhoods: a causal curve with both endpoints in such a neighborhood stays there (Chronology, causality, strong causality, global hyperbolicity and time functions clause (b)).
Proof
(Corresponding points have the same side.) Since the initial surface is contained in the open set , a boundary point is outside it and therefore lies in or by [L1]. A point is timelike reachable from along a curve lying in by [L3], so by [L4]; likewise for the past, using time reversal and [L3]. If , restrict all source neighborhoods in the correspondence definition to that open set. The corresponding point cannot lie in , because this is open and would give a paired witness with inconsistent sides; and it cannot lie in because it is a boundary point of the open image. Thus . The past case is identical after time reversal.
(Actual interior past at a future boundary.) Let and . The open set contains and therefore meets at some . A future timelike curve from to followed by one from to lies entirely in by [L3]; hence . This proves . Short timelike geodesic segments ending at , with all earlier points sufficiently close to , lie in this set by [L5] and the openness of . Thus there are actual interior past points tending to . Apply the same proof in to and reverse time on the past side.
(Achronality.) If distinct satisfied , step 1.2 at would put , contradicting . Thus this boundary is achronal. The identical argument on proves the second assertion of (a).
(A closed past inclusion from paired witnesses.) Let be a corresponding future pair and . Take a short future timelike geodesic through and points on it with and . For every , is an open neighborhood of , and is an open neighborhood of . Correspondence supplies with . The timelike curve from to lies in by [L3], so . Closedness of the causal relation in gives . Notice that the neighborhood of used here is the past of the strictly later point .
(Strict inclusion and equality of chronological pasts.) With as above, a sufficiently late point on the interior timelike geodesic ending at from step 1.2 satisfies , because is an open neighborhood of . It lies in , so step 2.2 gives , while [L3]-[L4] give . Push-up yields . Hence . Apply the same strict inclusion to the reversed common subdevelopment and the corresponding pair to obtain equality. For the second equality in (b), if , both endpoints lie in and their joining timelike curve lies there by [L3]; consequently . Conversely if , the first equality puts in , and the joining timelike curve between lies in by [L3], so its inverse gives . This proves both equalities.
(Limit along an interior timelike curve.) Let be future timelike with limit . For every , , and closedness applied to later values tending to gives ; push-up gives . If were to the past of , then for sufficiently late the point would lie in , and a concatenated timelike curve from through to would have both endpoints in , putting by [L3], a contradiction. Therefore such a curve can converge only to a future boundary point. Fix an open neighborhood of the corresponding . By [L6] choose an open causal-convex with . The interior past-geodesic construction of step 1.2 on the primed side supplies , with . Step 3.1 gives . For all sufficiently late , by chronology openness, and also by the first argument of this step. The second equality of (b) then gives . Concatenate the ambient timelike curves from to this point and from it to ; both endpoints are in , so causal convexity places in . This proves . Reversing time proves the corresponding limit statement for past-directed curves ending at a past boundary point.
(Uniqueness.) Suppose a future boundary point corresponds to . By step 1.1 both lie in the future of , and by step 3.1 their chronological pasts intersected with agree. Step 1.2 supplies points on a short past geodesic, tending to . The past equality therefore gives for every . Closedness of the causal relation implies . Interchanging the two points gives . Causality forces equality. For a past boundary point, apply this proof with the time orientation reversed; uniqueness holds on both sides. Together with step 4.1, this proves (c).
Remarks
The points approaching a future boundary from its chronological past are obtained from the actual past-set structure above the common Cauchy surface. The proof never treats a point's own chronological past as its neighborhood. Correspondence gives paired witnesses, causal convexity legitimizes mapping their entire joining curves, and global hyperbolicity supplies the closed causal relation and the causal-convex neighborhood squeeze. The time-reversed argument handles the past branch without reversing the future-curve convention in clause (c).
The set of boundary points with a corresponding point is open, and the extension preserves the metric, matter fields and connection on the common domain and its corresponding boundary
Statement
Assume Countable Choice and Dependent Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (), The axiom of dependent choice: a relation in which every element is related to something admits an -indexed chain).
Let and be developments of the same data and let be a common subdevelopment in the sense of Common subdevelopments, maximal common developments and corresponding boundary points clause (a). Let be the set of boundary points of that have a corresponding point (clause (c) of that definition). Then:
(a) is open in : there is an open set with .
(b) There is an open set with and a smooth map whose restriction to is and whose value at is the unique corresponding boundary point of ; moreover, for every there is an open neighbourhood of and a smooth local diffeomorphism built from a common interior base point , chosen in when is to the future of the initial surface and in when is to its past, and the exponential maps, such that on and on . No isometry property of on the part of outside is claimed.
(c) At every point the map preserves the metric, the matter fields and the metric-selected connection:
- for all , so on ;
- for every listed matter field ;
- for all smooth vector fields defined on a neighbourhood of and every , equivalently the pullback connection equals at , where both sides are read through the invertible differential .
(d) Every geodesic segment of whose image is contained in is mapped by to a geodesic segment of ; a null geodesic segment is mapped to a null geodesic segment.
(e) Let be an embedded submanifold of . Then is an injective immersion, hence an embedding onto its image, and it carries the induced metric of , its second fundamental form with respect to any unit normal field, and the matter fields together with their covariant derivatives of every finite order along to the corresponding objects of in . In particular and are identified by whenever is spacelike.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Countable Choice and Dependent Choice; two fixed developments of the same fixed model and data, a common subdevelopment , and its corresponding-point set . All causal relations are computed in their stated ambient developments.
The initial surface is contained in , every boundary point is strictly to one side of , chronology is open, and every causal curve from to a future point of lies in ; every causal segment with both endpoints in lies in (Cauchy sets are closed, split the manifold into past, set and future, and are locally Lipschitz graphs, Openness of the chronological future and past, openness of the chronological relation, and closure of future and past sets, A development sharing the initial Cauchy surface with a larger development is causally convex in it). The past-side assertions are the time reverse.
Local geodesics and exponential maps are smooth, convex normal neighborhoods exist, and exponential maps there have smooth inverses; timelike geodesic velocity stays timelike and has constant time orientation (The geodesic initial-value problem and the exponential map of the metric-selected connection, Existence of strictly convex normal neighborhoods: small coordinate balls are normal neighborhoods of each of their points, The joint exponential map: smoothness, invertible differential at the diagonal, and the small-velocity two-point inverse, Covariant differentiation along curves: metric pairing, parallel transport and geodesic speed).
Corresponding points are unique; every future timelike curve in converging to a future boundary point is mapped to a curve converging to its corresponding point (Structure of corresponding boundary points: achronality of the future boundary, equality of pasts, and uniqueness). Apply the same theorem after time reversal on the past side, and after swapping the two developments for the inverse correspondence.
The development embedding is a diffeomorphism preserving metric, matter and time orientation. It preserves the metric-selected connection and affinely parametrized geodesics wherever their entire segments lie in (Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality, Rigidity of isometric immersions of a connected Lorentzian manifold, and agreement of data-fixing embeddings on overlaps, Metric compatibility, torsion freedom and the metric-selected connection class).
Under Countable Choice, admits a smooth embedding ; its embedded image has an open Euclidean tubular neighborhood and a smooth retraction with (The weak Whitney proper embedding theorem, The Euclidean tubular neighbourhood theorem). The retraction is the normal-bundle projection composed with the inverse normal-addition diffeomorphism.
Under Countable Choice, every open cover of a smooth manifold has a subordinate smooth partition of unity with locally finite supports. Weighted sums of locally defined Euclidean-valued smooth maps, extended by zero termwise, are smooth (Smooth partitions of unity exist on manifolds, Smooth locally defined functions can be glued by a partition of unity).
An invertible differential is an open condition, and the smooth inverse function theorem gives a local diffeomorphism there (The smooth inverse function theorem on manifolds). Smooth tensor identities, including their coordinate derivatives, extend from an open set to its closure by continuity ( and smooth maps between smooth manifolds, Continuity of at a point of and on : the - condition, its agreement with at a limit point, and continuity at an isolated point).
Proof
(The interior past of a future boundary point.) Let . If , openness of and the fact give . Concatenate a future timelike curve from to with one from to . Past convexity [L1] puts that curve, hence , in . Therefore . Choose a future timelike vector at and its local geodesic with ; for sufficiently small , its segment lies in and hence in . This establishes an actual affinely parametrized timelike geodesic, rather than replacing an arbitrary timelike curve by a geodesic.
(Local normal-coordinate extension.) Let correspond to . By [L3] . Choose convex normal neighborhoods of and of ; shorten so its entire segment and its image lie respectively in , and set . By [L4] the image segment is an affinely parametrized geodesic. In the normal chart based at its inverse-exponential coordinates are its affine parameter times its initial velocity. Continuity at the limit therefore gives . Both vectors lie in the open normal-chart domains. Consequently, on a sufficiently small neighborhood of , the formula is defined and is a diffeomorphism onto its open image. At the vector is future timelike; shrink until every is future timelike as well. Its radial geodesic then joins to and stays in . For , both endpoints lie in , so causal convexity [L1] puts its entire radial segment in . The connection-preserving property [L4] now gives . For past boundary points repeat with reversed time orientation and an interior base point .
(Openness and the boundary values.) If , take points tending to using a countable coordinate-neighborhood basis. Then . The limit cannot lie in : continuity of there would force , contradicting Hausdorff uniqueness of the limit . Thus , and the same sequence witnesses the neighborhood definition of correspondence. Hence and is its unique corresponding point. Each has such a , so is relatively open in . Define on by and the unique corresponding values on . Each agrees with on .
(Euclidean patching and common jets.) Use the open cover of consisting of with map and all admissible pairs of step 2.1. Index by all such pairs, so no arbitrary-index choice of one map per boundary point is needed. Obtain [L5] and a subordinate locally finite partition from [L6]; write . Each term is extended by zero off its cover member; subordinate support makes the extension smooth. At , every term whose support meets has , so . Moreover fix one local extension near . On the open set in each overlapping domain one has . If , every coordinate derivative of their difference is zero at by continuity from ; if the equality holds on a neighborhood. Local finiteness and therefore show that every coordinate derivative of vanishes at : apply the finite Leibniz expansion to . This proves equality of all jets at every point of .
(Retraction and local invertibility.) The open set contains . Define there. It is smooth and agrees with on . For a local extension from step 4.1, the identity holds near ; chain and Leibniz rules and the common jets from step 4.1 give equality of all jets of and at . In particular is invertible. Restrict to the open set where is invertible; it contains , and is a local diffeomorphism by [L7]. For each , replace by . The original exponential formula remains a local diffeomorphism there and agrees with on . This proves (b), without asserting that the different exponential formulas agree on exterior overlaps. Countable Choice supplies [L5]-[L6], while Countable and Dependent Choice also accompany the boundary-structure supplier [L3].
(Metric, matter and connection.) On , preserves the metric and matter by [L4], and the connection by its Koszul formula. The smooth tensor fields , , and vanish on . The pullback connection is defined because is a local diffeomorphism on . All these tensors, and all their coordinate derivatives, vanish at every point of by continuity from . Thus (c) holds, and the matter identities also hold to first covariant order at each point of . No metric identity is asserted on the exterior of .
(Homeomorphism on the closure side.) The map is injective on ; on it is injective by applying uniqueness of corresponding points to the reversed common subdevelopment, and its images of and are disjoint because they lie respectively in and its boundary. Write for all corresponding boundary points on the primed side. Symmetry of the definition gives . Apply the local construction of steps 1.1-2.1 to the reversed pair. Near every point of it supplies a continuous local extension agreeing with on its part of ; on the open interior, the ordinary inverse supplies it. Hence is continuous in the subspace topology, while is continuous as the restriction of . Thus is a homeomorphism. Restricting this homeomorphism to any embedded submanifold and using the invertibility of proves that is an embedding.
(Geodesic transfer.) In coordinates, the acceleration of is the image under of the acceleration of , with the difference term precisely the pullback-connection difference of step 6.1. For a geodesic whose entire image lies in , both vanish at each parameter value, so its image is an affinely parametrized geodesic. The metric identity of step 6.1 preserves the zero squared velocity of a null geodesic. This proves (d).
(Induced data.) The metric identity of step 6.1 restricts to the induced metric of . Any unit normal is carried to the unit normal of ; time orientation follows on from [L4] and at by continuity. Connection compatibility gives for tangent vectors , which is equality of the second fundamental forms. The matter identities and all their coordinate derivatives from step 6.1, together with the full jets of connection compatibility, identify every finite-order covariant derivative along . Thus any prescribed complete finite-jet Cauchy data of the fixed model are carried as well. This proves (e), in particular the full restart-hypersurface data identification.
Remarks
The global smooth map is obtained by Euclidean patching followed by a tubular retraction, not by gluing possibly incompatible exterior exponential maps. Its full jets agree with the local exponential extensions on . Pointwise metric, matter and connection compatibility on that set suffices for the boundary geodesic and restart-data consumers; no exterior isometry is used. Countable Choice is explicit because the Euclidean embedding, tubular neighborhood and partition-of-unity suppliers require it. Dependent Choice is inherited from the boundary-structure supplier. No exterior isometry is asserted.
The causal past of a point truncated by the causal future of the initial Cauchy surface is compact
Statement
Assume the Axioms of Countable Choice and Dependent Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (), The axiom of dependent choice: a relation in which every element is related to something admits an -indexed chain). Let be a development of the given data in the sense of Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (a), write , and let be the auxiliary complete metric of The auxiliary Riemannian metric h=g+2n-flat tensor n-flat is complete after a proper-exhaustion conformal factor, and its closed bounded sets are compact. Then for every the set is compact. Moreover when , and is empty when .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: a development with Cauchy set , a point , and a sequence to be shown to have a convergent subsequence.
Global hyperbolicity and sides: Cauchy implies that is globally hyperbolic, hence strongly causal and causal, with closed causal relation and closed (The existence of a Cauchy set implies strong causality and compact causal diamonds clauses (a)-(c), In a globally hyperbolic manifold the causal relation is closed and truncated causal cones over compact sets are compact clause (a)). The Cauchy trichotomy is , with acausal (Cauchy sets are closed, split the manifold into past, set and future, and are locally Lipschitz graphs clause (a)). In fact : the right side is contained in the left by reflexivity and timelike reachability. Conversely, if for and , choose with . Concatenation gives a causal segment from to ; distinct endpoints contradict acausality, and equal endpoints give a nonconstant closed causal segment, contradicting causality. Trichotomy excludes all other possibilities outside the right side. Thus is closed, because is open (Openness of the chronological future and past, openness of the chronological relation, and closure of future and past sets clause (a), Chart independence, concatenation, reparametrization and transitivity for causal curves clauses (d),(f)). The reversed argument gives and .
Auxiliary metric: throughout this item denotes the complete conformally rescaled metric called in The auxiliary Riemannian metric h=g+2n-flat tensor n-flat is complete after a proper-exhaustion conformal factor, and its closed bounded sets are compact clauses (b)-(d). It is a smooth positive definite metric, its distance induces the manifold topology, closed -bounded subsets are compact, and the -arclength of a causal curve dominates the -distance of its endpoints (The auxiliary Riemannian metric h=g+2n-flat tensor n-flat is complete after a proper-exhaustion conformal factor, and its closed bounded sets are compact, Basic limit curve lemma: arclength-parametrized causal curves have causal limit curves on compact parameter intervals and future-inextendible limits on half-lines).
Length bound on compact sets: for every compact there is such that every causal curve with image in has -arclength at most (Strong causality bounds the auxiliary length of causal curves contained in a compact set).
Half-line limits: future causal curves parametrized by -arclength whose intervals contain and whose value at converges admit a subsequence converging uniformly in on every compact subinterval of to a past-inextendible future causal curve, which is nonconstant on every nondegenerate interval (Basic limit curve lemma: arclength-parametrized causal curves have causal limit curves on compact parameter intervals and future-inextendible limits on half-lines clause (b) and its dual, clause (a4)).
Inextendible extension and compaction: a one-sided-inextendible causal curve is contained in an inextendible causal curve (Equivalence of the absolutely-continuous and continuous causal conventions, and one-sided inextendible extensions clause (d)); a closed causal segment lies on an inextendible causal curve (Convergent causal ends are extendible, maximal geodesics have no limit, and Cauchy sets are acausal clause (c)); a compact causal diamond is compact and a causal segment with endpoints in different components cannot be confined to one diamond (The existence of a Cauchy set implies strong causality and compact causal diamonds clause (c)).
Metrizable topology on the relevant component: a causal curve stays in one connected component of . Each component is closed and open, and by [L2] its auxiliary Riemannian distance induces its manifold topology. When is nonempty it lies in the component containing , because every is joined to by a continuous curve (or equals ). A subset of this metric space is compact exactly when it is sequentially compact, under the stated Countable and Dependent Choice assumptions (For a metric space, compact, countably compact, limit point compact, sequentially compact, and complete together with totally bounded are all equivalent, given countable choice and dependent choice, Metric space: iff , symmetry, and the triangle inequality; pseudometric and ultrametric, Open cover, subcover, and compact topological space; a compact subset is a subspace that is compact in its own right). The empty case is compact directly. No general manifold metrization theorem or arbitrary-index choice is used.
Proof
(The two easy cases.) If and , then by [L1]. The relation and acausality force , while by reflexivity. Hence . If and , then some satisfies , so by transitivity, contradicting [L1]. Thus .
(Closure of and reduction to sequential compactness.) For every , is the intersection of the two closed sets and ([L1]), hence closed. By [L6] it remains to show that every sequence in has a convergent subsequence.
(Curves through the sequence.) Assume and , so by [L1]; let . For each choose with and concatenate a causal curve from to with one from to (omitting any equality segment), obtaining a future causal curve from to whose image contains , is contained in , and has finite -arclength (a compact causal diamond) ([L1], [L3], Causal curves, chronological and causal reachability, and inextendibility). Reparametrize by -arclength from backwards: this gives a future causal curve with , and with for the -arclength of the segment from to .
(Bounded length case.) Suppose some subsequence of is bounded by . Then for the corresponding one has , so lies in the closed -ball of radius around , which is compact by [L2]; the sequence therefore has a convergent subsequence, whose limit lies in by step 1.2.
(Unbounded length case is impossible.) Suppose instead that along a subsequence. The curves are parametrized by -arclength with and intervals containing for all sufficiently large , for each fixed positive integer ; by [L4] there is a subsequence converging uniformly in on every compact subinterval of to a past-inextendible future causal curve with , nonconstant on every nondegenerate interval. For each fixed , , and each lies in (it is on the causal curve from to ) and in ; by closedness [L1] , so .
(Contradiction in the unbounded case.) Let be as in step 2.2. First, misses : if for some , then for every one has and, by step 2.2, ; hence by [L1], so maps the nondegenerate interval into ; two distinct values would be causally related points of the acausal set ([L1]), and the only alternative is that is constant on a nondegenerate interval, which [L4] excludes. Now extend to an inextendible causal curve with by [L5]; as an inextendible causal curve it meets in exactly one parameter value ([L1]). Since misses , . If , then with : choosing with gives , and acausality forces , so is a nonconstant closed causal curve, contradicting causality [L1]. Hence the unbounded length case cannot occur.
(Conclusion.) By steps 2.1 and 2.2 every sequence in has a convergent subsequence in with limit in ; with step 1.2 and [L6] this makes compact. The remaining assertions are step 1.1.
Remarks
The statement is the compactness of "the past of truncated by the initial surface", used in An exposed boundary point: the last boundary point of a boundary null geodesic has no other boundary point in its past and The exposed boundary point controls the complement: J^-(q) cap U^c cap J^+(Sigma) is confined to a prescribed neighbourhood. The proof shows in addition that the -arclength of causal curves from to a fixed is bounded, since boundedness of the length was exactly the alternative that survived.
Affine extension of geodesics confined to a compact set with finite auxiliary length, and the logarithmic speed bound
Statement
Let be a time-oriented smooth Lorentzian four-manifold with metric-selected connection (Smooth time-oriented Lorentzian four-manifolds: the geometric objects of the model, Metric compatibility, torsion freedom and the metric-selected connection class, Existence and uniqueness of the metric-selected connection of a nondegenerate metric, and its extension to tensor fields), and let geodesics be the maximal geodesics with their affine parametrizations supplied by The geodesic initial-value problem and the exponential map of the metric-selected connection clause (a). Let be a smooth positive definite metric on (Smooth covariant 2-tensor fields on a smooth manifold).
(a) For every compact there is a constant with the following property. Let be a nonconstant geodesic, let be the -speed of its affine velocity and let denote the -arclength parameter of , so that is the -norm of the affine velocity expressed in the parameter . At every parameter value with one has
(b) Assume in addition that is complete and that every closed -bounded subset of is compact. Let be a maximal nonconstant geodesic with , let , and let be compact with . Suppose that the -arclength of the tail is finite: Then the geodesic extends beyond , contradicting the maximality of ; consequently no maximal geodesic can have a finite affine endpoint while its tail remains in a compact set and has finite -arclength.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: the Lorentzian manifold with its metric-selected connection, the positive definite metric , and, in clause (b), a maximal geodesic with a compact tail.
Geodesic ODE in charts: in every chart a smooth curve is a geodesic exactly where it satisfies , with smooth Christoffel symbols; a maximal geodesic through a point with given nonzero initial velocity is unique, and solutions depend continuously on initial data with a uniform existence time on compact sets of initial data (Coordinate geodesic equation, The geodesic initial-value problem and the exponential map of the metric-selected connection clause (a), Nearby initial values share one Picard–Lindelöf time interval and one state cylinder, Smooth dependence of ODE solutions on parameters).
Bounded coefficients on compact sets: for every compact there are with for all in a chart and all , uniformly over a finite chart cover of , and the first derivatives of the components in these charts are bounded ( is smooth); hence , contracted with three -unit vectors, is bounded on (Uniform quadratic-form bounds for positive definite symmetric matrices and smoothness of the inverse clauses (a) and (c), Smooth covariant 2-tensor fields on a smooth manifold, Open cover, subcover, and compact topological space; a compact subset is a subspace that is compact in its own right, Continuity of at a point of and on : the - condition, its agreement with at a limit point, and continuity at an isolated point).
No choice principle is used in this item.
Proof
(The rescaled velocity.) A nonconstant geodesic has no zero velocity at any parameter: a zero-velocity datum launches the constant solution, and ODE uniqueness would make the entire maximal solution constant. Therefore its -speed is positive. Let be a nonconstant geodesic with affine parameter and let be -arclength, so . Write for the -unit velocity of and for the affine velocity. Since is a geodesic, , hence for the function : indeed , so and because is a function of along the curve.
(Derivative of the -speed.) Covariant differentiation along the reparametrized curve gives ; equivalently by step 1.1. Thus the tensor product rule gives . Since , one obtains .
(The bound.) Let be compact. By [L2] there is with for all points of and all tangent vectors there. On the parameters with : , so by step 2.1, , that is, there. This proves (a) with .
(Bounds on the affine data up to the endpoint.) In the situation of clause (b), let be the finite tail length and put , a strictly increasing smooth map with smooth inverse, so as . By clause (a) applied on the tail, with , one has and for all .
(A compact set of bounded affine data.) The set is compact. Indeed take finitely many compact chart pieces covering , each contained in a tangent-bundle trivialization; such pieces are obtained by shrinking coordinate balls and taking a finite subcover of . On each piece [L2] bounds the Euclidean velocity coordinates by , and the condition cuts out a closed subset of the product of that compact piece and a closed Euclidean ball. Each resulting set is compact, and their finite union is . Step 4.1 puts every affine datum on the tail in . No sequence or subsequence of velocities is selected.
(Uniform ODE continuation.) Apply [L1] to the smooth first-order geodesic vector field in tangent-bundle charts. At every datum in it supplies a neighborhood of initial data and a positive common existence time in that chart. Take a finite subcover of by all such neighborhoods and let be smaller than their finitely many times. Every datum in therefore launches a geodesic for at least time . Fix with . The solution launched from exists past and agrees with on their overlap by uniqueness. Gluing it to the earlier part extends the affine geodesic beyond , contradicting maximality and proving (b). This uses only a finite subcover and finite minima, so no choice principle is needed.
Remarks
Clause (a) is the statement that the -speed of an affine velocity changes at most exponentially in -arclength on compact regions; clause (b) is the affine continuation used in An exposed boundary point: the last boundary point of a boundary null geodesic has no other boundary point in its past to rule out an implicit affine-completeness assumption for boundary geodesics. The hypothesis of clause (b) is met in applications for the auxiliary metric of The auxiliary Riemannian metric h=g+2n-flat tensor n-flat is complete after a proper-exhaustion conformal factor, and its closed bounded sets are compact, and the finite-length hypothesis is automatic when the tail is confined to a compact set of a strongly causal spacetime, by Strong causality bounds the auxiliary length of causal curves contained in a compact set; that composition is used in An exposed boundary point: the last boundary point of a boundary null geodesic has no other boundary point in its past.
An exposed boundary point: the last boundary point of a boundary null geodesic has no other boundary point in its past
Statement
Assume the Axioms of Countable Choice and Dependent Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (), The axiom of dependent choice: a relation in which every element is related to something admits an -indexed chain). Let and be developments of the same data and let be a common subdevelopment in the sense of Common subdevelopments, maximal common developments and corresponding boundary points clause (a). Let be the set of boundary points that have a corresponding point (clause (c) of that definition), and write . If , then there exists with
Facts & Assumptions
Given: developments of the same data, a common subdevelopment with .
Global hyperbolicity and closed relations: is Cauchy in and in ; and are globally hyperbolic, causal and strongly causal; and (The existence of a Cauchy set implies strong causality and compact causal diamonds, In a globally hyperbolic manifold the causal relation is closed and truncated causal cones over compact sets are compact clause (a), Cauchy sets are closed, split the manifold into past, set and future, and are locally Lipschitz graphs clause (a)).
Achronality and convexity: is achronal, and every causal curve in from to a point of is contained in (Structure of corresponding boundary points: achronality of the future boundary, equality of pasts, and uniqueness clause (a), A development sharing the initial Cauchy surface with a larger development is causally convex in it clause (a)).
Null versus timelike: a past-directed causal curve between two points of an achronal set with a timelike point or a genuine corner somewhere can be replaced by a timelike curve joining the endpoints (Local causality in a convex normal ball: causal reachability is the exponential cone, the Lorentzian length is bounded by the displacement radius, and null endpoints force the null geodesic, A causal curve in a convex normal ball whose position vector is null at one time has null velocity almost everywhere up to that time, The push-up rule: p << q and q <= r imply p << r, together with the timelike-piece criterion clause (c), Openness of the chronological future and past, openness of the chronological relation, and closure of future and past sets); hence such a curve between distinct boundary points must be a null geodesic.
Maximal nonconstant causal geodesics have no limit at either end, so are inextendible causal curves and meet the Cauchy surface once. The geodesic equation has unique maximal affine solutions, and null character and time orientation are preserved (Convergent causal ends are extendible, maximal geodesics have no limit, and Cauchy sets are acausal clause (b), Covariant differentiation along curves: metric pairing, parallel transport and geodesic speed).
The corresponding-point map is a homeomorphism and is the restriction of a smooth local diffeomorphism on a neighborhood of . It agrees with on and maps every geodesic lying wholly in to an affinely parametrized geodesic, preserving nullness; is relatively open in . These assertions do not assert an exterior isometry (The set of boundary points with a corresponding point is open, and the extension preserves the metric, matter fields and connection on the common domain and its corresponding boundary clauses (a)-(d)). Corresponding future boundary points lie in , where (Structure of corresponding boundary points: achronality of the future boundary, equality of pasts, and uniqueness, proof step 1.1).
In either development, is compact; on the connected component traversed by a curve there is a smooth complete proper auxiliary metric , and strong causality bounds the -length of every compact causal subsegment contained in a fixed compact set. A geodesic with a compact tail, finite auxiliary length and a finite affine endpoint extends beyond that endpoint (The causal past of a point truncated by the causal future of the initial Cauchy surface is compact, The auxiliary Riemannian metric h=g+2n-flat tensor n-flat is complete after a proper-exhaustion conformal factor, and its closed bounded sets are compact, Strong causality bounds the auxiliary length of causal curves contained in a compact set, Affine extension of geodesics confined to a compact set with finite auxiliary length, and the logarithmic speed bound clause (b)). The length bound applies to past curves by reversing their parametrization.
Correspondence means that every pair of neighborhoods , admits a witness with (Common subdevelopments, maximal common developments and corresponding boundary points clause (c)). Consequently correspondence is closed under joint limits whose two limits lie on the respective boundaries: for convergent corresponding pairs, first put a late pair inside , then apply correspondence to those same neighborhoods.
Countable Choice and Dependent Choice are inherited from the global causal, auxiliary metric, compactness and smooth-extension suppliers. The proof uses no arbitrary-index choice.
Proof
(An initial boundary generator.) Choose . Because , the splitting in [L1] gives . If the displayed exposed-point property already holds, take . Otherwise choose a distinct and a causal curve joining them. Achronality [L2] and the null-versus-timelike alternative [L3] make this a null geodesic segment. Parametrize its maximal extension in the past direction with and . By [L4] it meets once, at a parameter : a crossing at would imply , impossible. All points for lie in , because they are causally after , are not on , and [L1] excludes the past side.
(No interior complement point below a future boundary.) Let and suppose with . Since , one has . Choose a sufficiently small past timelike perturbation inside the open set . Push-up gives . The open neighborhood of meets , at say. Concatenate a timelike curve from to with one from to . Past convexity [L2] puts this entire curve in , contradicting . Thus no such exists. The perturbation is to the past, so the push-up direction is valid.
(Boundary-to-boundary causal segments stay on the boundary.) Let be future boundary points and let be a future causal segment from to . Every point of the segment lies in : some has . If , concatenate a timelike curve from to with the segment from to ; past convexity [L2] would give . If , step 1.2 with gives a contradiction. Thus every point lies in . Achronality and [L3] further make every nonconstant such segment a null geodesic.
(The actual last boundary parameter before the Cauchy crossing.) Set . It is closed in the compact interval , contains by step 2.1, and misses a neighborhood of because . Whenever , step 2.1 applied to puts in . Therefore for its maximum , with . In particular the whole segment is future boundary, and no parameter in is a boundary parameter. This establishes the interval property instead of assuming it for a closed preimage.
(Follow only the initial connected component of corresponding points.) Let . It is relatively open and contains by [L5]. Define ; relative openness at gives , and every belongs to . On the interval , the curve is a past null affine geodesic by [L5]. Let be its unique maximal geodesic extension in , with the same parameter and initial data at . Local uniqueness and connectedness give for all ; equivalently the interval solution itself is a restriction of the maximal solution. Each such value is a corresponding future boundary point, and hence belongs to , which is compact by [L6]. No connectedness of the entire open set has been assumed.
(Continuation of the image at the first possible exit.) The right endpoint of the maximal domain of satisfies . If , its tail lies in . On the component containing that curve choose the auxiliary complete proper metric from [L6]; intersected with this component is compact, since connected components of a manifold are closed. Strong causality gives a uniform length bound for every subsegment , . Taking the supremum of these integrals gives finite -length of the entire tail. Since , the compact-length affine extension theorem [L6] extends beyond , a contradiction. Thus , and is an actual smooth geodesic value with as .
(The first exit is still corresponding.) As , the corresponding pairs converge to . Their source values lie in and their target values in ; both boundaries are closed. Step 3.1 already gives , and closedness gives . For any neighborhoods of these two limits, sufficiently late values of the pair lie in both neighborhoods; [L7] then supplies an interior witness for the same neighborhoods. Hence the limit pair is corresponding, and . If , relative openness gives an interval to the right of in , which together with contradicts the definition of . Therefore , and belongs to . In particular all of lies in . The map used at boundary points throughout is or , never the interior map evaluated off its domain.
(Expose the final boundary point.) Suppose a distinct existed. By step 2.1 a past causal segment from to is a null geodesic lying in the future boundary. Concatenate the past segment from to with this past segment from to . If the two tangent rays at differ, the resulting corner and [L3] yield , contradicting achronality [L2]. If they agree, rescale the second affine parameter by a positive constant to match the nonzero velocities at . Uniqueness of the geodesic equation [L4] identifies a short initial portion of the second segment with , for some . That portion lies in by step 2.1, contradicting step 3.1. Both alternatives are impossible. Thus , with as required.
Remarks
This proves the full claim of Sbierski's Lemma 3.9. The last boundary parameter is taken before the genuine Cauchy crossing. Propagation of correspondence follows its initial connected interval and uses compactness, strong-causality length control and affine ODE continuation in the primed development. The final corner would join the original point to timelikely; a corner-free segment instead contradicts the last boundary parameter. Neither geodesic completeness nor an isometry on exterior neighborhoods is assumed.
The exposed boundary point controls the complement: J^-(q) cap U^c cap J^+(Sigma) is confined to a prescribed neighbourhood
Statement
Assume the Axioms of Countable Choice and Dependent Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (), The axiom of dependent choice: a relation in which every element is related to something admits an -indexed chain). Let and be developments of the same data, let be a common subdevelopment in the sense of Common subdevelopments, maximal common developments and corresponding boundary points clause (a), write , and let satisfy as in An exposed boundary point: the last boundary point of a boundary null geodesic has no other boundary point in its past. Then for every open neighbourhood of in there exists with
Facts & Assumptions
Given: developments of the same data, a common subdevelopment , and a point with the displayed exposed-point property, and an open neighbourhood of .
Global hyperbolicity: is globally hyperbolic with closed causal relation, and (The existence of a Cauchy set implies strong causality and compact causal diamonds, In a globally hyperbolic manifold the causal relation is closed and truncated causal cones over compact sets are compact clause (a), Structure of corresponding boundary points: achronality of the future boundary, equality of pasts, and uniqueness [L1] as used there).
Compact truncated pasts: is compact for every , and it is empty for by [L1] (The causal past of a point truncated by the causal future of the initial Cauchy surface is compact).
Subdevelopment convexity and boundary structure: the achronality of and the convexity of A development sharing the initial Cauchy surface with a larger development is causally convex in it are available (Structure of corresponding boundary points: achronality of the future boundary, equality of pasts, and uniqueness clause (a), A development sharing the initial Cauchy surface with a larger development is causally convex in it).
Past convexity of the subdevelopment: every causal curve in from to a point of is contained in (A development sharing the initial Cauchy surface with a larger development is causally convex in it clause (a)); and a causal curve in the globally hyperbolic between two chronologically related points of is contained in (A development sharing the initial Cauchy surface with a larger development is causally convex in it clause (c)).
No choice principle beyond the two declared axioms is used in this item.
Proof
(Setup.) Let be a future timelike curve with (it exists since every point of a time-oriented Lorentzian manifold has a future timelike curve). If the conclusion failed for every , there would be a sequence with and points .
(The correctly directed complement exclusion.) Suppose and . Since , and hence . Choose a short past timelike perturbation inside the open set . Push-up gives , so is an open neighborhood of the boundary point . It meets at . A timelike curve from to followed by one from to contradicts past convexity [L4], because it passes through . Thus there is no such . This uses a past perturbation; no future perturbation below a null-related endpoint is inferred.
(Compactness and a limit.) Fix any with for all (equivalently pass to the subsequence with ); then for all . Since and are closed and is closed [L1], the set is closed in the compact set of [L2], hence compact; passing to a subsequence, with .
(.) Since for every , and , closedness of the causal relation [L1] gives .
(, hence , contradiction.) If , then by the exposed-point property, so , contradicting of step 2.1. Hence ; but by step 3.1 and by step 2.1, contradicting step 1.2. Therefore the assumption of step 1.1 is false: for every sufficiently small one has , which is the assertion with .
Remarks
This is Sbierski's Lemma 3.11. Its content is that the exposed boundary point is "the last point of the complement in its own past": past the exposed point, the complement recedes into every neighbourhood of , so the time separation from a nearby is maximized exactly on the boundary; this is used in The spacelike restart surface at an exposed boundary point: maximizers on the boundary, the level hypersurface and its radial tube. Step 2.1 reproduces the source's exclusion of points causally below in the same two-case form (timelike case and null case) as the corresponding argument in An exposed boundary point: the last boundary point of a boundary null geodesic has no other boundary point in its past; the source's phrase "contradicts the global hyperbolicity of " is here expanded into the use of past convexity of the subdevelopment, A development sharing the initial Cauchy surface with a larger development is causally convex in it clause (a).
Time separation in a globally hyperbolic manifold: finiteness, existence of maximizing geodesics and the radial formula on causally convex normal regions
Statement
Assume the Axioms of Countable Choice and Dependent Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (), The axiom of dependent choice: a relation in which every element is related to something admits an -indexed chain). Let be a globally hyperbolic time-oriented smooth Lorentzian four-manifold (Chronology, causality, strong causality, global hyperbolicity and time functions clause (c)), let be the Lebesgue Lorentzian length functional on locally absolutely continuous future causal curves (Length monotonicity of the squared displacement: once a future causal curve in a normal neighborhood has a future timelike position vector, the displacement radius grows at least as fast as the accumulated Lorentzian length, with nonzero future causal velocity almost everywhere), and for define the time separation the supremum over the empty set being ; thus exactly for and for .
(a) For every one has . If , the supremum is attained by a future causal curve from to with . Every such nondegenerate maximizer is, up to increasing reparametrization, a causal geodesic, with image in the compact set . For , and the constant zero-velocity geodesic is the degenerate maximizer by convention. It has image and length zero; it is not asserted to belong to the curve class requiring nonzero causal velocity almost everywhere. This separates the reflexive case without changing the separation function or the nondegenerate maximizing claim.
(b) Let be a strictly convex normal neighbourhood of (as produced by Existence of strictly convex normal neighborhoods: small coordinate balls are normal neighborhoods of each of their points) and let be open and causally convex in (every causal curve in with both endpoints in is contained in ), with compact and . Then for every , so is smooth on and extends continuously by and for .
(c) On every compact set the function is upper semicontinuous in the following strong form: for every sequence in one has . If moreover , then for every sequence .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: a globally hyperbolic spacetime, a point , and the sets and sequences of the clauses.
Auxiliary metric and compact-truncation: for every compact there is with every causal curve with image in having -arclength at most , and Lorentzian length of a causal curve is bounded by a constant times its -arclength on compact sets; is compact (Strong causality bounds the auxiliary length of causal curves contained in a compact set, The auxiliary Riemannian metric h=g+2n-flat tensor n-flat is complete after a proper-exhaustion conformal factor, and its closed bounded sets are compact, In a globally hyperbolic manifold the causal relation is closed and truncated causal cones over compact sets are compact clause (b) with The existence of a Cauchy set implies strong causality and compact causal diamonds).
Limit curves and length upper semicontinuity: causal curves in a compact diamond with common initial point have uniformly convergent subsequences with causal limits, and Lorentzian length is upper semicontinuous under uniform convergence of causal curves (Basic limit curve lemma: arclength-parametrized causal curves have causal limit curves on compact parameter intervals and future-inextendible limits on half-lines, Two-endpoint limit curve theorem: bounded lengths give joining limits, unbounded lengths give two inextendible tails with the closure relation, Lorentzian length as a refined sum of local separations, and upper semicontinuity of the length under uniform convergence clause (b)).
Convex normal neighbourhoods: every point has a strictly convex normal neighbourhood; within it causal reachability is the exponential cone, the joining segments are geodesics contained in it, and for a causal curve in it from to one has , with equality exactly for the radial geodesic (Existence of strictly convex normal neighborhoods: small coordinate balls are normal neighborhoods of each of their points, Local causality in a convex normal ball: causal reachability is the exponential cone, the Lorentzian length is bounded by the displacement radius, and null endpoints force the null geodesic clauses (b) and (d), Length monotonicity of the squared displacement: once a future causal curve in a normal neighborhood has a future timelike position vector, the displacement radius grows at least as fast as the accumulated Lorentzian length clause (b), Normal neighborhoods, convex normal sets, the position vector and the squared-displacement function, The joint exponential map: smoothness, invertible differential at the diagonal, and the small-velocity two-point inverse).
The local equality case of the normal-maximum theorem [L3] forces each maximizing subarc to have its radial causal geodesic image up to increasing reparametrization. Overlap and uniqueness of the geodesic equation join these images into one geodesic. Timelike geodesics are permitted maximizers; the squared affine speed is constant (Covariant differentiation along curves: metric pairing, parallel transport and geodesic speed).
Proof
(Finiteness.) Let and let be any future causal curve from to . Every point of lies in , which is compact, so by [L1] the -arclength of and hence is bounded by a constant depending only on ; therefore . If no such curve exists and ; if causality excludes a nonconstant return curve and the stipulated zero-separation convention gives , represented by the constant degenerate geodesic as specified in (a); and iff there is a future timelike curve from to , i.e. .
(Attainment and geodesy of maximizers.) Let and, using Countable Choice, let be causal curves from to with . All images lie in the compact set ; parametrize them by -arclength as . After a subsequence by [L1], and . The bounded two-endpoint theorem [L2] gives a joining limit and uniform convergence of the actual normalized causal representatives on . Set and on ; their uniform convergence is exactly that of the supplied representatives after the fixed parameter change. The and are causal curves on a single fixed domain; increasing affine reparametrization preserves Lorentzian length. Thus [L2]'s length semicontinuity applies to these curves, and, with , gives , so . In every sufficiently small convex normal neighborhood, the local Lorentzian normal-maximum theorem [L3] bounds the length of a subarc by that of its radial causal geodesic, with equality only along that geodesic up to increasing reparametrization. If any subarc failed this equality condition, finite replacement would strictly increase the total length, contradicting maximality. Thus all local subarcs have geodesic images; on overlaps they have the same tangent ray and geodesic uniqueness joins them into a single causal geodesic up to monotone reparametrization, and its image lies in .
(The radial formula.) Let be as in clause (b) and let . Let be a maximizer from to (step 2.1). Since is causally convex, ; by [L3] applied in with base point , every causal curve in from to has length at most , with equality exactly for the radial geodesic, which lies in ; since all competitors from to lie in and the radial segment itself is a competitor with that length, . The right-hand side is smooth on by [L3] and the smoothness of the inverse exponential map; its continuous extension by at points of and at is exactly there by step 1.1.
(Upper semicontinuity on compact sets.) Let in a compact . If , upper semicontinuity is immediate from nonnegativity. Otherwise take a subsequence approaching that positive limsup; discard zero-separation terms, so every remaining is causally related to . Choose, by Countable Choice, be causal curves from to with . Passing to the compact diamond for a compact containing the ([L1]), parametrize by -arclength and pass to using [L1]. The case cannot occur on this positive-limsup subsequence: the compact-set metric comparison gives , contradicting . For the bounded two-endpoint limit gives . As in step 2.1, the actual causal curves converge uniformly on to , and retain exactly the original Lorentzian lengths. Hence the common-domain length theorem applies, giving by upper semicontinuity [L2] and step 2.1. If then a maximizer from to exists (step 2.1); since is open, for large the inner segment of can be joined to by a short timelike segment inside , giving by letting the inner cut shrink; combined with the upper bound this gives continuity at .
Remarks
Clause (b) is the radial formula (3.12) of Sbierski's paper; clause (a) is the classical existence of maximizing causal geodesics among causal curves with fixed endpoints in a globally hyperbolic spacetime, and clause (c) is the continuous-dependence statement used in The spacelike restart surface at an exposed boundary point: maximizers on the boundary, the level hypersurface and its radial tube to conclude that the level set is a smooth hypersurface.
The spacelike restart surface at an exposed boundary point: maximizers on the boundary, the level hypersurface and its radial tube
Statement
Assume the Axioms of Countable Choice and Dependent Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (), The axiom of dependent choice: a relation in which every element is related to something admits an -indexed chain). Let and be developments of the same data (Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality), a common subdevelopment (Common subdevelopments, maximal common developments and corresponding boundary points clause (a)), , and let be an exposed boundary point in the sense of An exposed boundary point: the last boundary point of a boundary null geodesic has no other boundary point in its past: Fix a strictly convex normal neighbourhood of (Existence of strictly convex normal neighborhoods: small coordinate balls are normal neighborhoods of each of their points) with and , where is the corresponding set of The set of boundary points with a corresponding point is open, and the extension preserves the metric, matter fields and connection on the common domain and its corresponding boundary (possible because that set is open in and is open). Let be points of such that satisfies (possible: strong causality at supplies a neighbourhood of such that every causal curve with both endpoints in is contained in , and then for by the same argument). Then is open, causally convex, , and is compact. Let be a point with chosen so close to along a future timelike curve that also (The exposed boundary point controls the complement: J^-(q) cap U^c cap J^+(Sigma) is confined to a prescribed neighbourhood). Let be the time separation from (Time separation in a globally hyperbolic manifold: finiteness, existence of maximizing geodesics and the radial formula on causally convex normal regions) and put Let and let be the connected component of the closed-in- set that contains a maximizer of over . Then:
(a) ; every maximizer of over lies in ; every with lies in ; every with lies in .
(b) is a nonempty smooth embedded spacelike hypersurface of without boundary, subsets and ; moreover and every point of lies in .
(c) There is a smooth positive function with the following properties. Define (so that ) on , let be its local flow, and put Then is well defined and smooth, is open, is a diffeomorphism, , and:
- every causal curve in is, in the coordinates , of the form with of finite length in the induced metric of , and it meets in at most one parameter value;
- every causal curve in that is inextendible in meets , and consequently meets in exactly one parameter value; in particular no causal curve in that is inextendible in and whose image is disjoint from exists;
- for every there is a unique with , and the punctured radial segment is contained in . The base belongs to , and the full segment including the base is contained in whenever . In particular, if then also . If is a time-orientation-preserving local isometry with , where is the smooth extension of the common-subdevelopment map , then on ;
- the tube can be chosen inside any prescribed open neighbourhood of the whole , and below any prescribed positive continuous width ceiling on . More quantitatively, write and . The construction gives , for and . Every smooth positive smaller width satisfying retains conclusions 1-3.
No compactness of or positive uniform lower bound for is assumed. The radial segment in clause 3 excludes its base because .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Countable and Dependent Choice, the two developments and common subdevelopment, the exposed point and the exact configuration in the Statement.
The developments are globally hyperbolic. Time separation is finite and upper semicontinuous on compact sets, with its positive set and its smooth radial formula on the causally convex ; is closed and is compact (Time separation in a globally hyperbolic manifold: finiteness, existence of maximizing geodesics and the radial formula on causally convex normal regions, The causal past of a point truncated by the causal future of the initial Cauchy surface is compact, In a globally hyperbolic manifold the causal relation is closed and truncated causal cones over compact sets are compact).
Normal geometry gives the smooth inverse exponential on , radial geodesics and the Gauss differential , with constant radial geodesic speed (Existence of strictly convex normal neighborhoods: small coordinate balls are normal neighborhoods of each of their points, The joint exponential map: smoothness, invertible differential at the diagonal, and the small-velocity two-point inverse, The differential of the squared-displacement function and the position vector of the reversed geodesic, Covariant differentiation along curves: metric pairing, parallel transport and geodesic speed, Local causality in a convex normal ball: causal reachability is the exponential cone, the Lorentzian length is bounded by the displacement radius, and null endpoints force the null geodesic). Smooth geodesic/flow existence, uniqueness and parameter dependence are The geodesic initial-value problem and the exponential map of the metric-selected connection, The fundamental theorem on flows and Smooth dependence of ODE solutions on parameters; an injective transverse flowout is The flowout theorem.
The future boundary is achronal, causal curves from to a point of stay in , and causal segments with both endpoints in stay in (Structure of corresponding boundary points: achronality of the future boundary, equality of pasts, and uniqueness, A development sharing the initial Cauchy surface with a larger development is causally convex in it). The corresponding set is open in the boundary and its smooth extension preserves metric and connection on (The set of boundary points with a corresponding point is open, and the extension preserves the metric, matter fields and connection on the common domain and its corresponding boundary).
Under Countable Choice, countable relatively compact coordinate refinements, locally finite shrinkings and smooth subordinate partitions are available (Every open cover of a manifold has a countable relatively compact coordinate-ball subcover, A countable coordinate-ball cover has a countable locally finite shrinking, Smooth partitions of unity exist on manifolds). A smooth auxiliary complete Riemannian metric with compatible distance topology exists (The auxiliary Riemannian metric h=g+2n-flat tensor n-flat is complete after a proper-exhaustion conformal factor, and its closed bounded sets are compact).
Causal curves are locally absolutely continuous with nonzero causal velocity almost everywhere; smooth composition obeys the chain rule, finite concatenation is valid, and the fundamental theorem of calculus applies under the declared choice assumptions (Causal curves, chronological and causal reachability, and inextendibility, Chart independence, concatenation, reparametrization and transitivity for causal curves, Fundamental theorem of calculus for absolutely continuous functions). Maximal portions of an inextendible curve in an open subset are inextendible there (A maximal connected portion of an inextendible causal curve inside an open subset is inextendible there). The common subdevelopment has Cauchy (Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality).
Local isometries preserve the Levi-Civita connection and affinely parametrized geodesics; their differentials take the future unit normal of a spacelike hypersurface to the future unit normal of its image (Rigidity of isometric immersions of a connected Lorentzian manifold, and agreement of data-fixing embeddings on overlaps, The future unit normal, induced metric and second fundamental form of a spacelike hypersurface).
Proof
(Maximum and its boundary location.) The compact set is nonempty because it contains ; is finite and upper semicontinuous on , so its maximum is attained and by [L1]. A maximizer belongs to , hence to by the assumed containment, and to since . If were interior to , the timelike radial geodesic from to could be continued a little to the past within by [L2]. Its extended positive proper length exceeds , contradicting maximality on . Thus every maximizer lies in . If has and is outside , then because , a contradiction. The same boundary-location argument applies to each with . This proves (a).
(The complete level surface and compact ambient closure.) On define with ; by [L1], there. The Gauss differential [L2] gives , so and is future-directed; its negative is unit past-directed. The level is therefore a smooth spacelike hypersurface in . Its connected components are open and closed in this regular level, so the specified component is embedded without boundary and closed relative to . It contains the chosen boundary maximizer, and every point of is a boundary maximizer by step 1.1. Hence (b) holds. Let ; this is compact, although itself need not be compact. In the normal chart of , every limit point of still has past timelike inverse vector of norm squared . Thus is smooth on an open neighbourhood of in , and lies in its regular level .
(Quantitative normal flow over the ambient closure.) Extend to its smooth domain near . The radial formula shows directly that its flow is while defined, so and its lines are unit affinely parametrized past timelike geodesics by [L2]. Compactness of and openness of the smooth flow domain give , an open neighbourhood of in the extended level, and a compact ambient set containing every for , after shrinking . Smoothness of and the positive metric on the extended level permit a further uniform shrinking with , where for tangent to that level. To see uniformity, the -unit tangent bundle over compact is compact, has a positive minimum there and tends uniformly to zero; the bounds then persist near . Likewise choose constants with and throughout this compact flow range. The flow speed gives . These are bounds on a compact extended level neighbourhood, not an assumption that is compact.
(Smooth thin width with an actual derivative estimate.) Let be any prescribed open neighbourhood of , and let be any prescribed continuous width ceiling, taking , if none is specified. Set . By [L4] choose a countable locally finite smooth partition with compact supports in , indexed by a subset of the positive integers. Put . Choose positive constants with and , omitting any identically zero partition member. Countable Choice suffices. Define . Local finiteness makes it smooth and positive; the partition identity gives , while . The speed estimate and distance bound make for . Also whenever , since such lies in and . This constructs the required smooth width from quantified partition bounds; scaling an arbitrary continuous function is not used.
(Injectivity, the open tube and its metric.) Restrict the smooth flow to . It is defined by step 4.1, and because its image lies in . If , this identity gives and flow uniqueness gives . Its differential is invertible at the zero section because is transverse to , and everywhere by the flow group law; hence [L2] makes it a diffeomorphism onto an open . Vectors are tangent to the -level and orthogonal to , so . All construction claims in (c), including its quantitative inequalities, now hold.
(Causal graphs and finite base length.) For a future causal curve in , [L5] and step 5.1 give almost everywhere. Since is future timelike, almost everywhere, and the fundamental theorem makes strictly decreasing. The lower comparison bound gives and hence the total -length is at most . Thus the image is a graph in the time coordinate; integrated length on subintervals gives a locally Lipschitz graph in any base chart, without assuming that the inverse of the original time parametrization is a map. It crosses at most once. At either time end, tail -length tends to zero; from step 3.1 makes Cauchy in , with a unique limit in compact . Past curves are handled by reversal. This proves (c)1 and supplies the endpoint control used below.
(Exact radial interior.) Let . For , all radial points with lie in by step 1.1 because their time separation exceeds ; the base may lie on and is excluded from this assertion. For , is to the chronological past of . Concatenate a timelike curve from to (since ) with the radial segment from to . Its endpoint is , so [L3]'s past-convexity clause puts the whole concatenation, including and the radial segment, in . If , directly. If and , causal convexity with endpoints also puts the inclusive segment in . This proves precisely the radial assertions in (c)3.
(Past endpoint of a hypothetical avoiding curve.) Suppose a future causal curve inextendible in avoids . Then it lies in and has by step 1.1; equality may occur and is not excluded without proof. At its past end the decreasing time has supremum limit , and step 6.1 gives . If , continuity and the tube inequalities imply . If , then also since , so the smooth extended flow gives endpoint , contradicting inextendibility. The only remaining possibility is . Along the curve set . The actual derivative bound yields , hence for any two ordered parameter values , . A past-end limit is impossible because it is at least the positive value of at each fixed later parameter. This excludes the signed lower face with the correct direction of monotonicity; no analysis of a second endpoint is needed.
(Noncompact surface ends and the Cauchy conclusion.) If instead , relative closedness gives . Step 4.1 gives , so the tube inequality forces and the smooth extended flow gives . The point has past timelike inverse exponential of radial norm , so by [L2]. If , the assumed containment would give , contradicting . Therefore , again an endpoint in . With step 7.1 this proves there is no -avoiding inextendible curve. For any inextendible curve meeting , [L5] makes each maximal -portion inextendible in , so it meets once. If two parameter visits to existed, [L3]'s causal convexity puts the intervening segment in , making both visits belong to the same maximal -portion, a contradiction. This proves (c)2 for the entire noncompact surface.
(The map comparison and admissible thinner tubes.) For the conditional local isometry of (c)3, its differential agrees with on and, since both are future isometries at , on the future unit normal by [L3], [L6]. They therefore agree on , the past unit normal. The punctured radial segment of step 6.2 lies in , so maps it to an affinely parametrized geodesic by [L6], with limiting value and velocity at the base supplied by its smooth extension . The -image is a geodesic with the identical base value and velocity. Geodesic uniqueness [L2] gives . Finally any smaller smooth positive width with the derivative bound in (c)4 inherits the flow domain, metric comparisons, speed bounds and vanishing at . The same proof uses in step 7.1, still giving strict signed-face monotonicity; all other steps are unchanged. Step 4.1 already allows any prescribed open and ceiling . Thus (c)3-4 and all conclusions hold.
Remarks
The surface is retained whole. Compactness is used only for its ambient closure inside the given precompact diamond and for a smooth extension of the radial level geometry there. The smooth width comes from an explicit countable partition estimate and may tend to zero at the noncompact ends. Shrinking a tube for local uniqueness must preserve the stated derivative bound; clause (c)4 supplies such a shrink in any prescribed open neighbourhood of .
The base of a radial segment may be a corresponding boundary point. The interior segment is in , while its limiting first jet is read through the smooth extension . This is the exact statement needed to patch the local uniqueness isometry with the common-subdevelopment map.
The causal domain of dependence of a partial Cauchy hypersurface is an open causally convex manifold on which the hypersurface is Cauchy
Statement
Assume Countable Choice and Dependent Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (), The axiom of dependent choice: a relation in which every element is related to something admits an -indexed chain). Let be a time-oriented smooth Lorentzian four-manifold and let be a closed acausal edgeless embedded topological hypersurface of codimension one. Here acausality forbids causal relations between distinct points of as in Spacelike hypersurfaces, acausal sets, Cauchy sets, domains of dependence and Cauchy horizons; edgeless means that no has the following property: every open neighborhood of admits , and a timelike curve in from to avoiding . All curves and inextendibility use Causal curves, chronological and causal reachability, and inextendibility, so an inextendible end has no point limit in the specified ambient manifold. Define the ambient causal domains by as in Spacelike hypersurfaces, acausal sets, Cauchy sets, domains of dependence and Cauchy horizons. Then:
(a) is open, contains , and .
(b) Every causal curve in with endpoints in lies in .
(c) Every causal curve in the induced open submanifold which is inextendible there meets at exactly one parameter value. No smoothness or spacelikeness of the topological hypersurface is required.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The stated choice axioms, , , and its ambient causal domains.
Countable Choice and Dependent Choice are assumed. Countable choices select a sequence of avoiding curves, and the complete-metric and limit-curve suppliers retain their declared choice assumptions. No arbitrary-index choice is used.
Temporal coordinate balls exist with a finite upper causal-speed bound, future timelike vertical fibers, and a narrower constant cone whose timelike straight segments are -timelike (Causal cone domination in adapted charts and Lipschitz-graph bounds for causal curves). Chronology is open and satisfies push-up in both directions (Openness of the chronological future and past, openness of the chronological relation, and closure of future and past sets, The push-up rule: p << q and q <= r imply p << r, together with the timelike-piece criterion).
A complete auxiliary Riemannian metric with compact closed bounded balls exists, and sequences of its arclength-parametrized one-sided inextendible causal curves whose starting points converge have inextendible causal subsequential limits uniformly on compact parameter intervals (The auxiliary Riemannian metric h=g+2n-flat tensor n-flat is complete after a proper-exhaustion conformal factor, and its closed bounded sets are compact, Basic limit curve lemma: arclength-parametrized causal curves have causal limit curves on compact parameter intervals and future-inextendible limits on half-lines). The dual limit statement holds for past curves.
Causal curves admit finite concatenation and restrictions; smooth increasing diffeomorphisms between parameter intervals preserve the curve class (Chart independence, concatenation, reparametrization and transitivity for causal curves). A causal curve converging at a finite parameter end has an admissible causal endpoint extension; maximal timelike geodesics have no point limit at their maximal ends (Convergent causal ends are extendible, maximal geodesics have no limit, and Cauchy sets are acausal). Convex normal neighborhoods have closed local causal relations, smoothly represented by inverse exponential cones (Existence of strictly convex normal neighborhoods: small coordinate balls are normal neighborhoods of each of their points, Local causality in a convex normal ball: causal reachability is the exponential cone, the Lorentzian length is bounded by the displacement radius, and null endpoints force the null geodesic, The joint exponential map: smoothness, invertible differential at the diagonal, and the small-velocity two-point inverse).
Proof
Fix . There is no timelike loop through : if , openness gives for all sufficiently near , and the topological hypersurface has points arbitrarily near , contrary to acausality. Thus no two points of , equal or distinct, are chronologically related. In particular and are disjoint by push-up.
We explain the arclength use in [L2]. For an avoiding one-sided causal curve, restrict to the half ending at the prescribed point. Its -speed is locally integrable and positive almost everywhere, so its accumulated -length is continuous strictly increasing. The inverse parameter gives a curve which is -Lipschitz for , because distance is at most original subcurve length; hence it is locally Lipschitz in charts. To verify the tangent and the arclength identity without assuming absolute continuity of the inverse parameter, let denote accumulated length. At almost every original parameter, both the chart curve and are differentiable and . Their exceptional set has measure zero. An absolutely continuous real function sends a measure-zero set to a measure-zero set: cover that set by intervals of arbitrarily small total length and apply the defining AC modulus to bound the total lengths of their image intervals. Thus its image under is null, locally and hence on a countable exhaustion. At each remaining new parameter , the inverse difference quotient is , and the chain difference quotient of the reparametrized chart curve is . It is nonzero future causal and has -norm one. This proves both admissibility and -arclength parametrization. If the available one-sided length were finite, the -Lipschitz curve would be Cauchy at that end and completeness would give a point limit, contrary to inextendibility. Thus these reparametrizations have full half-line domains, as required by [L2]. This argument changes parameters and never asserts an extension preserving an arbitrary original parameter.
Edgelessness supplies an open neighborhood of in which every timelike curve from to meets . Take a temporal coordinate box with closure in , centered at . First choose small, and then small enough that all points and belong respectively to and ; the narrower constant cone of [L1] ensures this. Every vertical segment between these endpoints therefore meets , and has only one meeting by step 1.1. Write it . The same narrower cone implies : otherwise the two graph points are joined by a timelike straight segment in , contrary to step 1.1. Consequently is exactly a continuous Lipschitz graph; the sign of separates the box into two open sides. A point above the graph belongs to by its vertical segment; a point below belongs to .
A future causal segment starting at and remaining in this box cannot have an endpoint below the graph: the vertical segment from to the graph point gives , so , excluded by step 1.1. If and , acausality excludes it. If but the segment is nondegenerate, choose an intermediate point different from sufficiently near its start; it cannot lie below the graph or on , so lies above it. Its vertical predecessor satisfies , again excluded by step 1.1. The same argument applies even if the rest of the loop leaves the box. Thus no nondegenerate causal loop passes through , no causal curve meets twice, and every sufficiently short future segment from lies strictly above its local graph. Reversing time puts short past segments strictly below. Every causal curve through therefore crosses its local graph, and uniform approximations of a sufficiently short compact crossing segment also meet that graph by continuity of and the intermediate value theorem.
If , take a causal curve and a point on a sufficiently short initial segment. Step 3.1 puts above the graph. Its vertical predecessor gives , hence . Dually . For , the past half of the maximal timelike geodesic through is past-inextendible by [L3], and hence meets ; its timelike segment from that meeting to puts . The dual argument proves the past-side inclusion. Also immediately.
Let . If were not interior to , choose converging to and past-inextendible curves ending at and avoiding . Step 1.2 and [L2] give a past-inextendible causal limit with . It meets at a negative parameter, by and . By step 3.1 a short compact segment around that meeting crosses the local graph strictly. Uniform convergence on that segment forces the avoiding approximants to meet , contradiction. Therefore is open; time reversal gives the dual result.
Let . If were not interior to , take converging to . At each choose a past-inextendible avoiding half and a future-inextendible avoiding half, concatenate them, and use step 1.2 to parametrize the two halves by signed arclength with at zero. Apply [L2] first to their past halves and then to the future halves of that subsequence. The two limits join at to an inextendible causal curve, and the common subsequence converges uniformly on each compact interval of the joined domain. Its short crossing segment through from step 3.1 forces the avoiding curves to meet , contradiction. Thus ; together with step 4.2 and step 4.1 this proves (a).
A causal segment whose endpoints belong to stays in . Indeed, if an intermediate were outside , a past-inextendible avoiding half ending at concatenated with the remaining segment forces that remaining segment to meet at . The initial endpoint belongs to by step 4.1, whereas puts by the dual of that step. Disjointness forces , and then the nondegenerate segment meets twice, excluded by step 3.1. This is a contradiction. The time reverse proves causal convexity of .
For a segment in the remaining mixed case , , an intermediate has both past- and future-inextendible avoiding halves. Concatenating the past half with forces a meeting of strictly after , and concatenating with the future half forces a meeting strictly before . This contradicts step 3.1. The opposite mixed case , is impossible for a nondegenerate segment: step 4.1 yields , ; if either endpoint is outside , push-up gives a chronological relation between points of , excluded by step 1.1, and if both are in , step 3.1 excludes the segment. Along with step 5.2 this proves (b).
Let be inextendible there and avoid . Step 4.1 and connectedness of its image put it entirely in one of the disjoint open sets and . Take the latter case; the other reverses time. Then every value belongs to . Fix . If the future half from has no point limit in , that half is future-inextendible in and avoids , contradicting . Therefore the future end converges to some . If , then contradicts inextendibility in .
Suppose and . There is a future-inextendible avoiding half starting at . A causal closed segment from to can be obtained as follows: use a smooth increasing diffeomorphism to reparametrize the future half of to a finite interval with excluded upper end; this preserves local absolute continuity on its interior, and the endpoint-extension assertion of [L3] adjoins its limit as a causal endpoint. The resulting closed segment avoids , including its endpoint. Concatenate it with the avoiding half from . It is future-inextendible in , avoids , and starts at , contradiction. Hence , which again contradicts inextendibility of in the open submanifold. Every such curve therefore meets , and step 3.1 supplies uniqueness of the parameter visit. This proves (c).
Remarks
Causal is open but need not be closed. This proof uses neither timelike-domain closedness nor a quoted horizon theorem. It preserves the topological hypersurface scope and uses no global causal assumption on .
Past corresponding-boundary exposure and a spacelike restart in the original time orientation
Statement
Assume Countable Choice and Dependent Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (), The axiom of dependent choice: a relation in which every element is related to something admits an -indexed chain). Let and be developments of the same fixed model and complete data, and let be a common subdevelopment (Common subdevelopments, maximal common developments and corresponding boundary points). Write and let be its corresponding-boundary set. All causal relations and future normals below use the original . A tangent vector is future timelike when and , in the convention of Smooth time-oriented Lorentzian four-manifolds: the geometric objects of the model. If , the following past-side construction exists.
(a) Exposure and localization. There is with
Choose a strictly convex normal neighborhood (every pair has a unique contained geodesic and each base exponential has a smooth inverse on , as in Existence of strictly convex normal neighborhoods: small coordinate balls are normal neighborhoods of each of their points) of with . There is an open causally convex diamond containing , with compact closure , and a point such that
(b) The whole restart surface. For put and define the continuous local forward radial separation
Set and . Then , every maximizer lies in , and in implies membership in . The connected component of containing any chosen maximizer is a nonempty smooth embedded spacelike hypersurface without boundary, closed relative to , and
(c) Thin tubes and original-oriented comparison. On the positive radial region put , a unit future timelike vector field, and let be its local flow from . For any prescribed open neighborhood of the whole and positive continuous ceiling , there is a smooth positive width with such that, on , is a diffeomorphism onto an open tube and . Write and . One has , , and . Moreover:
- causal curves in are graphs in , with finite total -length of their base projections, and meet at most once;
- every causal curve inextendible in meets the original exactly once;
- for , the radial segment between and , excluding its base , lies in . If then , and whenever the inclusive segment lies in . If a local isometry preserves the original time orientation and agrees on with the corresponding-set smooth extension , then on ;
- every smaller smooth positive width with retains conclusions 1-3. Such a width exists inside any further prescribed open neighborhood of and below any further positive continuous ceiling, by the same construction.
No matter field, future unit normal, initial second fundamental form or complete model data is reversed. In particular the past-side construction applies to every fixed admissible model of Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality, without a model time-reversal assumption. No compactness of or uniform positive lower bound for the tube width is assumed.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Countable and Dependent Choice, two original-oriented developments of the same fixed data, their common subdevelopment, and a nonempty corresponding set on the past side of the original initial surface.
The original is Cauchy in and ; each is globally hyperbolic, strongly causal and causal, with closed causal relation and the disjoint side decomposition . Both are closed. Future causal curves from a point of to , and causal segments with both endpoints in , stay in (Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality, The existence of a Cauchy set implies strong causality and compact causal diamonds, In a globally hyperbolic manifold the causal relation is closed and truncated causal cones over compact sets are compact, Cauchy sets are closed, split the manifold into past, set and future, and are locally Lipschitz graphs, A development sharing the initial Cauchy surface with a larger development is causally convex in it clauses (b)-(c)).
On the relevant connected component, a smooth complete proper auxiliary Riemannian metric induces the manifold topology. Strong causality bounds auxiliary lengths of causal segments in a compact set. Only the finite-interval result of Basic limit curve lemma: arclength-parametrized causal curves have causal limit curves on compact parameter intervals and future-inextendible limits on half-lines clauses (a1)-(a4) is used: fixed-length auxiliary-arclength curves with initial values converging admit uniform causal limits which are nonconstant on each nondegenerate interval and obey the uniform local-clock estimate whenever the segment stays in a dominated cone coordinate ball whose closure is compactly contained in a larger adapted chart with the same cone bounds; depends on that ball and . The eventual-domain half-line extraction is proved in step 1.1 below, rather than assumed from clause (b). One-sided inextendible curves have inextendible extensions; sequential compactness is compactness here under the declared choice axioms (The auxiliary Riemannian metric h=g+2n-flat tensor n-flat is complete after a proper-exhaustion conformal factor, and its closed bounded sets are compact, Strong causality bounds the auxiliary length of causal curves contained in a compact set, Basic limit curve lemma: arclength-parametrized causal curves have causal limit curves on compact parameter intervals and future-inextendible limits on half-lines, Equivalence of the absolutely-continuous and continuous causal conventions, and one-sided inextendible extensions, For a metric space, compact, countably compact, limit point compact, sequentially compact, and complete together with totally bounded are all equivalent, given countable choice and dependent choice).
Chronology is open, causal relations are transitive, and either mixed timelike/causal concatenation is timelike after push-up. A causal segment between points of an achronal set is null-geodesic: a timelike portion or a genuine corner instead gives a timelike endpoint relation. Maximal nonconstant causal geodesics are inextendible causal curves, meet a Cauchy surface once, and preserve null character and original time direction. Geodesic initial-value uniqueness and finite-affine-end compact-length extension hold (Openness of the chronological future and past, openness of the chronological relation, and closure of future and past sets, The push-up rule: p << q and q <= r imply p << r, together with the timelike-piece criterion, Local causality in a convex normal ball: causal reachability is the exponential cone, the Lorentzian length is bounded by the displacement radius, and null endpoints force the null geodesic, A causal curve in a convex normal ball whose position vector is null at one time has null velocity almost everywhere up to that time, Convergent causal ends are extendible, maximal geodesics have no limit, and Cauchy sets are acausal, Covariant differentiation along curves: metric pairing, parallel transport and geodesic speed, The geodesic initial-value problem and the exponential map of the metric-selected connection, Affine extension of geodesics confined to a compact set with finite auxiliary length, and the logarithmic speed bound).
The corresponding-set map is a homeomorphism, its smooth extension is a local diffeomorphism there and agrees with on . The corresponding set is relatively open in the boundary. Its metric, matter and connection jets agree on , so it carries affine boundary geodesics and preserves the original causal direction there. Correspondence is closed under joint boundary limits, directly from its neighborhood-witness definition (Common subdevelopments, maximal common developments and corresponding boundary points, The set of boundary points with a corresponding point is open, and the extension preserves the metric, matter fields and connection on the common domain and its corresponding boundary clauses (a)-(e)).
Convex normal geometry supplies smooth inverse exponential maps and the radial Gauss differential. Timelike radial lines have constant proper speed. Smooth flows, uniqueness and transverse flowouts are available. Countable relatively compact coordinate refinements, locally finite shrinkings and smooth subordinate partitions on a smooth hypersurface are available under Countable Choice (Existence of strictly convex normal neighborhoods: small coordinate balls are normal neighborhoods of each of their points, The joint exponential map: smoothness, invertible differential at the diagonal, and the small-velocity two-point inverse, The differential of the squared-displacement function and the position vector of the reversed geodesic, The fundamental theorem on flows, Smooth dependence of ODE solutions on parameters, The flowout theorem, Every open cover of a manifold has a countable relatively compact coordinate-ball subcover, A countable coordinate-ball cover has a countable locally finite shrinking, Smooth partitions of unity exist on manifolds).
Causal curves have locally absolutely continuous coordinate expressions and nonzero causal velocity almost everywhere; smooth composition and the scalar fundamental theorem apply, and finite causal concatenations are valid. A maximal portion in an open submanifold is inextendible there. Local isometries preserve connection and geodesics, and an original-time-orientation-preserving isometry carries the original future unit normal of a spacelike hypersurface to that of its image (Causal curves, chronological and causal reachability, and inextendibility, Chart independence, concatenation, reparametrization and transitivity for causal curves, Fundamental theorem of calculus for absolutely continuous functions, A maximal connected portion of an inextendible causal curve inside an open subset is inextendible there, Rigidity of isometric immersions of a connected Lorentzian manifold, and agreement of data-fixing embeddings on overlaps, The future unit normal, induced metric and second fundamental form of a spacelike hypersurface).
Proof
(Compact truncated futures in the original orientation.) For every , is compact. The cases and give and the empty set by acausality and [L1]. Otherwise . For any sequence , choose future causal curves from through to points of , and let be their total auxiliary arclength. If a subsequence has bounded , its lie in a compact -ball about , so have a convergent subsequence with limit in the closed . If not, pass to and parametrize the curves by arclength on starting at . For each integer , discard the finitely many indices , apply ONLY the finite-interval clauses of [L2] to the restrictions on , and extract recursively nested subsequences. Their diagonal subsequence has compatible uniform limits on every : uniqueness of uniform limits makes them agree on overlaps. They define a future causal curve which is nonconstant on each nondegenerate interval. It has no future endpoint: if , choose a dominated cone coordinate ball about whose closure is compactly contained in a larger adapted chart with the same cone bounds, containing its entire sufficiently late tail. For all in that tail the finite-interval local-clock estimate in [L2] gives with the same chart constant ; its right side is bounded by convergence while its left side diverges. Thus is future-inextendible under the no-endpoint convention, and its image lies in at every finite parameter by closedness. It misses : after a hypothetical meeting all its later values would lie in , contradicting acausality and nonconstancy. An inextendible extension supplied by [L2] cannot meet on a past extension either, since that would imply while . This contradicts the Cauchy property. Thus every sequence has a convergent subsequence and [L2] gives compactness. The curves and stay in the component of ; that component is closed, so all compactness and length arguments remain valid on disconnected manifolds.
(Past boundary and complement geometry.) For one has : for in that set, choose near and concatenate ; future convexity [L1] forces . Consequently the past boundary is achronal. Also no satisfies . Otherwise ; take a short future timelike perturbation within that open complement and past side. Then , so choose near . The concatenation violates future convexity. Finally a future causal segment between past-boundary points stays on the boundary: every intermediate point is in ; if in , its continuation through to forces by [L1]; if interior to , the complement exclusion applied to is violated. Such a nonconstant segment is null-geodesic by [L3].
(Corresponding pairs stay on the same past side.) An interior point in is joined to by a future timelike curve in by [L1]; its image is therefore in because preserves the original time orientation. For a corresponding boundary point , the neighborhood-witness definition [L4] excludes a target point on the open opposite side, and excludes because the target is a boundary point. Thus . The same arguments apply in and to .
(A boundary generator and its last parameter.) Choose , necessarily in by [L1]. If it is already exposed as in (a), retain it. Otherwise choose a distinct . By step 1.2 their joining segment is a future null geodesic. Its maximal affine extension , parametrized by , , meets at a parameter by [L3] and acausality: a crossing at would put in both and . For the values lie in . The closed set contains , misses a neighborhood of , and contains whenever it contains , by step 1.2. Therefore with , not merely an unspecified closed subset.
(Correspondence reaches the actual last boundary point.) In the nonexposed case of step 2.1, along that generator let and . Relative openness [L4] gives . On , is a future affine null geodesic, and agrees with its maximal affine extension in by [L3]. By step 1.3 its tail lies in the compact of step 1.1. Strong-causality auxiliary-length bounds and finite let the compact-length extension theorem [L3] extend beyond any putative affine endpoint . Hence exists. Joint boundary closedness and the neighborhood-witness definition [L4] imply that is still corresponding. If , relative openness contradicts the supremum definition. Thus and .
(Past exposure.) If a distinct existed, join to by the boundary null geodesic of step 1.2. Concatenate it with . A genuine corner gives by [L3], contradicting past-boundary achronality. If the tangent rays agree, match the affine velocities by positive rescaling; geodesic uniqueness identifies an initial part with for , contradicting the last boundary parameter. Thus . The initially exposed case of step 2.1 has the same conclusion directly.
(Complement localization towards the past.) Given an open neighborhood of , take a short past timelike curve from . If arbitrarily small positive failed the desired containment, choose and . All lie in the closed part of the compact from step 1.1. A subsequence converges to , and closed causality gives . If , step 4.1 forces , a contradiction. Otherwise the complement exclusion in step 1.2 gives a contradiction. Hence for every sufficiently small positive the containment holds with .
(A precompact diamond.) Relative openness of and of permits a strictly convex normal as in (a). Strong causality and the closed causal relation give points so close to that the diamond has . More explicitly choose an open neighborhood of such that causal curves with endpoints in stay in , then choose ; the compact diamond contains and lies in . A chronological diamond is causally convex by push-up. Apply step 5.1 with and small enough to have . This proves (a) without altering the original cones or any solution field.
(Forward radius and boundary maximum.) The inverse exponential at is smooth on . Its future timelike cone is open and has only null or zero vectors on its cone boundary; therefore the displayed zero extension of is continuous. On its positive set the Gauss differential gives , where is the transported future radial position vector. Hence , is past timelike and is unit future timelike. The compact contains and , so a positive maximum exists. A maximizer has future timelike radial vector and is in , hence in by (a). If it were interior to , extend its radial geodesic a little farther to the future, still in ; its radial proper length increases, contradicting maximality. Thus every maximizer is in . Also with would give , a contradiction.
(Whole spacelike component and compact ambient closure.) The level in is regular with timelike gradient by step 7.1. Its connected component through a maximizer is a nonempty embedded spacelike hypersurface without boundary and is closed relative to . Every point of is a boundary maximizer by the argument of step 7.1. Its ambient closure is compact in . At every limit point the inverse exponential remains future timelike with squared norm ; thus extends smoothly to a neighborhood of in , and lies in its regular level. This proves (b); it does not assert compactness of .
(Quantitative normal flow over the closure.) Near , the unit future field has radial flow . Thus and each flow line is an affine unit future timelike geodesic. Compactness of gives and a level neighborhood of on which the flow for has compact ambient range. Smoothness and the compact unit tangent bundle over permit shrinking so that . On that range choose constants with on the level and . The speed bound gives . These bounds concern the compact ambient closure, and require no completeness of the induced metric on .
(Actual smooth-width derivative estimate.) For the prescribed define . By [L5], take a countable locally finite smooth partition on with compact supports, using distinct indices and discarding identically zero members. Set and choose positive with . The compact nonempty supports make the infima positive, so these requirements are compatible even when ; Countable Choice suffices. Then is smooth positive and . Local finiteness allows termwise differentiation, and the triangle inequality gives . The speed estimate keeps the tube in . Whenever , relative closedness puts , and makes .
(Tube diffeomorphism and causal graphs.) On , the radius identity makes equal image points have equal , and flow uniqueness then makes their base points equal. Transversality to the spacelike level and the flow group law make the differential invertible. Thus is a diffeomorphism onto open , with . For a future causal curve , [L6] gives and almost everywhere, since is past timelike. Scalar composition and the fundamental theorem give strict increase of . Also , so total base length is at most . In particular the curve is a graph in , crosses at most once, and its base projection has Cauchy tails in , with limits in compact . Past parametrizations reverse the curve parameter, not the manifold orientation. This proves (c)1 and the stated metric assertions.
(Radial interior in the fixed past-side model.) If with , every radial point with lies in because its radius exceeds by step 7.1. If , the future radial segment goes from to , and has a future timelike continuation to . Future convexity [L1] puts this whole curve, including , in . At the base is . When , causal convexity gives the inclusive segment in for either sign. This proves the radial part of (c)3 using clause (b) of the original subdevelopment-convexity lemma, not a reversed development.
(The signed future endpoint of an avoiding curve.) Suppose a future causal curve inextendible in avoids . It lies in , has by step 7.1, and at its future end has and by step 11.1. If , the tube inequalities give . When the extended flow gives an endpoint , impossible. For the remaining lower-face case , put . The actual derivative bound gives almost everywhere. Integrating, its future limit is at least its positive value at any fixed earlier parameter, whereas . This contradiction excludes the signed lower face. The direction is future increase of in the original .
(Noncompact surface ends and the original Cauchy surface.) If , step 10.1 gives , hence and the curve has ambient endpoint . This point lies in and has future timelike radial inverse vector of norm squared , so . If , the containment in (a) would give , contradicting . Therefore and is an endpoint in , also impossible. Thus every inextendible causal curve in meets . Its maximal -portion is inextendible in by [L6] and meets the original once. If the entire curve had two visits to , causal convexity [L1] would put the intervening segment in , giving two visits on the same maximal portion, a contradiction. Curve-parameter reversal covers past curves. This proves (c)2.
(Original-oriented overlap agreement.) The local isometry in (c)3 and agree on and on tangent derivatives along . Their differentials also agree on the original future unit normal by [L4], [L6], since both differentials preserve the original metric and future cone there. In this past-side construction that normal is , so the two radial image geodesics have identical value and initial velocity at every base , even if . The punctured segment of step 12.1 lies in ; its -image is an affine geodesic, and its limiting base jet is given by the smooth extension . Geodesic uniqueness gives on . No exterior isometry of is assumed.
(Admissible thinner tubes and unchanged data.) For any smaller smooth width with the bound in (c)4, the flow domain, metric comparisons and vanishing width at persist. In step 12.2 the derivative estimate becomes , still excluding the lower face; the other endpoint and radial arguments are unchanged. Step 10.1 applied with a further prescribed open neighborhood and ceiling below gives the required smaller smooth width. Finally every construction used only the original metric, its original future causal curves, common map and original Cauchy surface. The solution fields were never transformed. In particular the equality of complete data on and uses their original future normals through [L4], [L6]. This proves all of (c) and the fixed-model scope.
Remarks
The past boundary is exposed by following future null generators toward the original initial surface. Its local radius increases toward the future, so the avoiding-curve argument uses a future endpoint and an increasing signed lower-face function. These are the sign changes required by the past geometry; the physical normal and matter data do not change. Local complete-data uniqueness is applied afterward to the actual original-oriented restart data, in A maximal common development has no corresponding boundary points: the spacelike restart produces a strictly larger common development.
A maximal common development has no corresponding boundary points: the spacelike restart produces a strictly larger common development
Statement
Assume the Axioms of Countable Choice and Dependent Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (), The axiom of dependent choice: a relation in which every element is related to something admits an -indexed chain). Let and be developments of the same data, let be a common subdevelopment (Common subdevelopments, maximal common developments and corresponding boundary points clause (a)), write , and let be the set of boundary points with a corresponding boundary point. Assume that is maximal among the common subdevelopments of and in the following sense: for every common subdevelopment of and one has and on (this is the maximality property of the maximal common development, Existence and uniqueness of the maximal common development of two developments clause (b)). Then .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Countable Choice, Dependent Choice, the two developments, the maximal common subdevelopment , and the corresponding set .
Future and past restart geometry in the original orientation. If , An exposed boundary point: the last boundary point of a boundary null geodesic has no other boundary point in its past supplies an exposed future point, and The spacelike restart surface at an exposed boundary point: maximizers on the boundary, the level hypersurface and its radial tube supplies a normal neighborhood, precompact diamond , a whole spacelike surface meeting , and radial tubes with clauses (c)1-4. If , Past corresponding-boundary exposure and a spacelike restart in the original time orientation supplies the corresponding past exposure and complement localization in clause (a), the whole surface in (b), and the same thin-tube, original-Cauchy and overlap conclusions in (c)1-4. Its radial time increases toward the original future, whereas the future-side construction uses a past radial flow. Both constructions keep the original , metric, initial normal convention and matter fields fixed.
Data transfer: is defined and smooth on a neighbourhood of , and for the spacelike hypersurface the restriction is an embedding onto its image identifying the induced metric, the second fundamental form and the matter fields with their covariant derivatives of every finite order; in particular identifies the complete Cauchy data of realized in with the corresponding data of in (The set of boundary points with a corresponding point is open, and the extension preserves the metric, matter fields and connection on the common domain and its corresponding boundary clause (e)).
Local complete-data geometric uniqueness is required for the fixed admissible coupled model at the actual restart data, as specified in Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality. Use Local geometric development for a fixed covariant Einstein-matter model with complete constrained data when its full initialization, hyperbolicity, compatibility recovery and stress-conservation hypotheses hold on this spacelike surface. Scalar and strict-fluid instances are Local Einstein-scalar evolution: smooth constrained data admit a local development, unique up to a data-fixing isometry, Local evolution for a strict barotropic perfect fluid: smooth constrained data admit a development, unique up to a data-fixing isometry. Geodesic nonnegative tilted dust instead uses Local Einstein-dust evolution: smooth constrained data with prescribed velocity admit a smooth local development, unique up to a data-fixing isometry with its independent common-flow/frame reduction, including its separately prescribed velocity on zero density. Complete data, including all required matter jets, agree by [L2]; the comparison isometry matches every matter field. An arbitrary conserved stress is not a fixed-model uniqueness premise.
The restart supplier makes a smooth embedded spacelike hypersurface without boundary. The intrinsic neighborhood theorem Local Cauchy neighborhoods in a conically bounded product chart clause (d), applied separately to the embeddings and , supplies open neighborhoods on which the whole respective surface is Cauchy and which are globally hyperbolic. With the restricted solution fields these are developments of the complete data on . Neither surface needs to be globally acausal in the original ambient manifold; the neighborhoods are intrinsic.
Embedding theorem: a data-fixing isometric immersion of one development into another is injective and hence a development embedding; its image is open and it is a diffeomorphism onto it (A data-fixing isometric immersion of developments is injective, hence a development embedding; uniqueness of data-fixing embeddings, Rigidity of isometric immersions of a connected Lorentzian manifold, and agreement of data-fixing embeddings on overlaps clause (a)).
Every causal curve inextendible in meets the original once for a tube of The spacelike restart surface at an exposed boundary point: maximizers on the boundary, the level hypersurface and its radial tube clause (c), or of Past corresponding-boundary exposure and a spacelike restart in the original time orientation clause (c) in the past-side case. In either case clause (c)4 supplies a smooth quantitatively thin tube inside any specified open neighborhood of the whole and below any specified positive continuous ceiling, with the explicit derivative bound required for conclusions (c)1-3. Thus is a development by the local field equations and that Cauchy conclusion.
No choice principle beyond the two declared axioms is used in this item.
Proof
(Both boundary sides in the fixed model.) Suppose . Since and the original Cauchy side decomposition exhausts , every point of lies strictly to the original future or past of . If , take the future exposure and restart configuration of [L1]. Otherwise , and take the complete past-side exposure, complement localization, spacelike surface and quantitatively thin tubes supplied by [L1]. In both cases , , and the tube conclusions preserve the original Cauchy property and original-oriented overlap comparison. No development, normal or matter datum is time-reversed.
(Local uniqueness on the whole restart surface.) The complete data of realized in and in via agree by [L2]. Apply [L4] to obtain intrinsic Cauchy neighborhoods of each surface, carrying the restricted metric and full matter solution. The applicable fixed-model theorem [L3] gives an open neighborhood of the whole in the source and a future isometry matching all matter fields, with . Replace by . This construction uses the actual branch uniqueness theorem and its admissibility at the realized restart data.
(A smooth admissible thinner tube.) Apply the applicable restart clause (c)4 with the prescribed open neighborhood of and width ceiling . It gives a smooth positive width with and . The comparison metric bounds and the signed-face endpoint argument therefore retain restart conclusions (c)1-3. No scaling of an arbitrary continuous width is used.
(Agreement on the actual overlap.) The future local isometry is defined on , equals on , and matches the matter fields there and on by step 2.1. The applicable restart clause (c)3 now gives on : the punctured radial segment lies in , and its limiting value and velocity at its possibly boundary base agree through . Connection transport and uniqueness of the two image geodesics prove that comparison, without requiring the base to lie in .
(The patched map.) Define by on and on . This is well defined by step 4.1 and smooth and is a data-fixing isometric immersion preserving the time orientation and the matter fields, because these are local properties and hold for on and for on (Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clauses (b)-(c), Common subdevelopments, maximal common developments and corresponding boundary points clause (a)).
( is a development.) By [L6] every causal curve in that is inextendible in meets in exactly one parameter value; is open with the restricted metric, time orientation and matter fields, the field equations hold (they are local and hold on ), and is an embedding with the induced data . Hence is a development of the same data (Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (a)); in particular it is globally hyperbolic with Cauchy surface by The existence of a Cauchy set implies strong causality and compact causal diamonds.
( is a development embedding.) By step 5.1, is a data-fixing isometric immersion of the development into ; hence it is injective and a diffeomorphism onto the open set by [L5].
(Strictly larger.) Pick (nonempty by the applicable surface clause (b) in [L1]). Then and , so and . Thus is a common subdevelopment of and strictly larger than , contradicting the maximality of assumed in the statement.
(Conclusion.) Therefore the assumption is false: .
Remarks
This is Theorems 3.6 and 3.13 of Sbierski's paper. The two corrections recorded in The set of boundary points with a corresponding point is open, and the extension preserves the metric, matter fields and connection on the common domain and its corresponding boundary (no isometry claim for the normal-coordinate formula outside , and the connection compatibility replacing it) enter through the data transfer [L2] and through the geodesy of the extension used in An exposed boundary point: the last boundary point of a boundary null geodesic has no other boundary point in its past. The patching step 4.1 is the place where the source writes "the same continuity argument as in the proof of Lemma 3.1, applied to ": it is made precise here through the limiting first jet at the base point of the radial segment, using clause (c)3 of The spacelike restart surface at an exposed boundary point: maximizers on the boundary, the level hypersurface and its radial tube instead of a density argument. Step 1.1 treats the two sides separately. The full past-side geometric construction is Past corresponding-boundary exposure and a spacelike restart in the original time orientation, with future radial flow and its signed future-endpoint argument. The local uniqueness invocation in step 2.1 uses the actual complete data on with the original future unit normal in both branches. Neither , the initial , nor any scalar, fluid, dust or additional model field is reversed; no invariance of a fixed model under time reversal is assumed.
The intersection of two developments of the same data sharing the initial Cauchy surface is again a development
Statement
Assume Countable Choice and Dependent Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (), The axiom of dependent choice: a relation in which every element is related to something admits an -indexed chain) for the global causal structure and auxiliary-length calculus used below.
Let be a development of the given data (Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (a)), write , and let be open with such that is a development of the same data for (Common subdevelopments, maximal common developments and corresponding boundary points clause (a), with the identity as the embedding where it is defined; equivalently, both carry restricted development structures over the same initial embedding ). Then is a development of the same data.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Countable Choice, Dependent Choice, a development of the given data and open sets containing , each carrying a development structure of the same data over .
Convexity in the ambient development: every future causal curve in from to a point of is contained in ; every future causal curve from a point of to is contained in ; and every causal curve in with both endpoints in is contained in , for (A development sharing the initial Cauchy surface with a larger development is causally convex in it clauses (a)-(c)).
Cauchy properties and the side decomposition: every causal curve in that is inextendible in meets in exactly one parameter value; ; and every closed causal segment lies on an inextendible causal curve of the ambient manifold, up to a strictly increasing affine reparametrization (Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (a), Cauchy sets are closed, split the manifold into past, set and future, and are locally Lipschitz graphs clause (a), Convergent causal ends are extendible, maximal geodesics have no limit, and Cauchy sets are acausal clause (c)).
Compact truncated cones, causality and length bounds in : is globally hyperbolic by The existence of a Cauchy set implies strong causality and compact causal diamonds, hence strongly causal with compact causal diamonds; is compact by The causal past of a point truncated by the causal future of the initial Cauchy surface is compact. For the dual , repeat that lemma's geometric argument with curves from to in the given orientation. Bounded auxiliary lengths put any sequence in a compact ball about . If the lengths are unbounded, the future half-line limit starting at stays in the closed set , cannot meet without its later values also lying on the acausal surface, and cannot have a Cauchy crossing on a past extension because . This contradicts the Cauchy property. Closedness of follows from the closed surface and the open disjoint side decomposition; the cases and give respectively and the empty set. The dual half-line limit and one-sided extension are supplied by Basic limit curve lemma: arclength-parametrized causal curves have causal limit curves on compact parameter intervals and future-inextendible limits on half-lines clause (b) and Equivalence of the absolutely-continuous and continuous causal conventions, and one-sided inextendible extensions clause (d); sequential compactness implies compactness by For a metric space, compact, countably compact, limit point compact, sequentially compact, and complete together with totally bounded are all equivalent, given countable choice and dependent choice. This argument uses only the metric, causal curves and Cauchy property, and never changes the fixed model, , or matter fields. For every compact there is bounding auxiliary arclength, and the causal relation is closed (Chronology, causality, strong causality, global hyperbolicity and time functions, Strong causality bounds the auxiliary length of causal curves contained in a compact set, In a globally hyperbolic manifold the causal relation is closed and truncated causal cones over compact sets are compact).
The auxiliary metric of The auxiliary Riemannian metric h=g+2n-flat tensor n-flat is complete after a proper-exhaustion conformal factor, and its closed bounded sets are compact has a complete distance inducing the topology. Distance between two points of a compact subarc is at most its -length. Thus finite total tail length makes image points Cauchy at that end, without changing the original parametrization (Convergence of a sequence in a metric space: iff in , Complete metric space: every Cauchy sequence converges in the space, Continuity of at a point of and on : the - condition, its agreement with at a limit point, and continuity at an isolated point).
Inextendibility in an open submanifold means the absence of a point limit at either parameter end, including an infinite end (Causal curves, chronological and causal reachability, and inextendibility clause (d)). Convergence to a point of an open submanifold with values in that submanifold is convergence in its manifold topology.
No choice beyond the stated Countable and Dependent Choice premises is used.
Proof
(Setup and side split.) Let be a future causal curve that is inextendible in , and suppose for contradiction that misses . Then is a causal curve in each and in . Since is an interval and is continuous, is connected; by [L2] it is contained in exactly one of or . We treat these two cases separately while keeping the given time orientation and matter fields fixed.
(The compact diamond in the future-side case.) Assume and fix . By [L3] the set is compact. For every in , and , so .
(The compact diamond in the past-side case.) Assume instead and fix . By [L3] the time-dual set is compact. For every in , and , so .
(The future-side past tail converges.) For put , bounded by by [L3], and let . For , additivity gives , which tends to zero as approaches the past parameter end. A decreasing coinitial sequence and completeness of therefore give a limit ; the same tail bound gives convergence of the whole past tail. Since is closed, . This works at finite and infinite parameter ends without reparametrizing .
(The past-side future tail converges.) For put , bounded by by [L3], and let . For before the future parameter end, additivity gives , which tends to zero as approaches that end. A cofinal increasing sequence and completeness of give a limit ; the same tail bound gives convergence of the whole future tail. Since is closed, .
(The future-side limit lies in the intersection.) Fix . For every earlier , , so closedness of and step 3.1 give . If , then and, since , there is a causal curve from to . Concatenating it with a causal curve from to contradicts past convexity [L1]. The same argument gives , hence . Only closedness of the causal relation is used to obtain the segment to ; no endpoint extension preserving the original parameter is asserted.
(Closed causality and future convexity put in the intersection.) Fix . For all later , , so closedness of and step 3.2 give . If , then and gives a causal curve from to some point of . Concatenate a causal curve from to with that curve to . Future convexity [L1] forces the concatenation, including , to lie in , a contradiction. The same argument gives , hence .
(The future-side contradiction.) By steps 3.1 and 4.1, as approaches its past parameter end. This contradicts inextendibility in under the no-limit convention [L5]. Thus the future-side case cannot occur.
(The past-side contradiction.) By steps 3.2 and 4.2, as approaches its future parameter end. This contradicts inextendibility in under the no-limit convention [L5]. Thus the past-side case also cannot occur, and the curve must meet .
(Uniqueness of the meeting and conclusion.) Suppose in with . By [L2] there is an inextendible causal curve and a strictly increasing affine with ; since is a causal curve in with Cauchy surface , it meets in at most one parameter value, but with , a contradiction. Hence the meeting is unique. A past-directed parametrization is changed to a future-directed one by reversing its parameter; the image and number of visits to are unchanged, so the same conclusion holds for past causal curves. Thus is Cauchy in . Moreover, is an open submanifold of with the restricted metric, time orientation and matter fields; the field equations are local and hold on , hence on ; and has the original induced data. Therefore is a development of the same data in the sense of Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (a).
Remarks
The statement is the intersection step used in the transitivity argument for the identifications of the universal development. The proof isolates the two structural inputs: the past (or future) part of an inextendible curve in that stays on one side of is imprisoned in the compact causal diamond , where the auxiliary length bound forces a limit; and convexity of each then forces that limit to lie in , contradicting inextendibility in . No Zorn's lemma or arbitrary-index Axiom of Choice is used; the stated Countable and Dependent Choice premises belong to the causal and length suppliers.
Gluing two developments along their maximal common development: the quotient is a development containing both
Statement
Assume Countable Choice and Dependent Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (), The axiom of dependent choice: a relation in which every element is related to something admits an -indexed chain) for the actual maximal-common/no-boundary suppliers and the countable atlas/partition constructions. Let and be developments of the same data (Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (a)), write and , and let be their maximal common development (Common subdevelopments, maximal common developments and corresponding boundary points clause (b), Existence and uniqueness of the maximal common development of two developments). Let be the topological disjoint union with canonical inclusions , , and define a relation on by: when , or and for some , or and for some . Let with quotient map and quotient topology (The quotient topology of a surjection, quotient maps, saturated sets, and the quotient of a space by an equivalence relation with its canonical projection). Then:
(a) is an equivalence relation; and are injective, continuous and open, hence homeomorphisms onto the open subsets and , which cover ; ; and is Hausdorff.
(b) carries a unique structure of a second countable smooth four-manifold (Smooth manifolds and their smooth charts) making and diffeomorphisms onto open subsets; a unique smooth Lorentzian metric and matter fields making both maps isometries preserving all matter fields. Their future cones determine a unique future-cone orientation on . There exists a smooth future timelike representative of those cones, making both maps time-orientation preserving; this auxiliary vector field is not unique. These satisfy the field equations of the data on , and is an embedding of with induced data , so is a development of the data; moreover every causal curve in that is inextendible in meets in exactly one parameter value.
(c) and are data-fixing development embeddings of and into in the sense of Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (c).
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Countable Choice, Dependent Choice, developments of the same data, their maximal common development , the disjoint union , the relation and the quotient .
Maximality and the empty corresponding set: by Existence and uniqueness of the maximal common development of two developments clause (b), is a common subdevelopment of the same data (Common subdevelopments, maximal common developments and corresponding boundary points clause (a)) and every common subdevelopment is contained in it with the same map; hence the maximality hypothesis of A maximal common development has no corresponding boundary points: the spacelike restart produces a strictly larger common development is satisfied and that lemma yields that has no corresponding boundary points in the sense of clause (c) of the definition.
The two developments at the level of structure: are Hausdorff second countable smooth Lorentzian four-manifolds with time orientations and matter fields, is a diffeomorphism onto the open set , and preserves the metric, the time orientation and the matter fields (Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clauses (a)-(c), Smooth manifolds and their smooth charts, Second countability: an at most countable basis for the topology).
Convexity and the Cauchy property: causal curves in with endpoints in lie in , and likewise for their time reverses; an inextendible causal curve in (respectively in ) meets (respectively ) in exactly one parameter value; Cauchy sets are acausal; and every closed causal segment lies on an inextendible causal curve of the ambient manifold (A development sharing the initial Cauchy surface with a larger development is causally convex in it clause (c), Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (a)5, Convergent causal ends are extendible, maximal geodesics have no limit, and Cauchy sets are acausal clauses (c)-(d), Spacelike hypersurfaces, acausal sets, Cauchy sets, domains of dependence and Cauchy horizons).
The side decomposition and portion inextendibility: and (Cauchy sets are closed, split the manifold into past, set and future, and are locally Lipschitz graphs clause (a), The existence of a Cauchy set implies strong causality and compact causal diamonds); a maximal connected portion of a causal curve that is inextendible in an ambient open set and enters an open subset is inextendible in that subset (A maximal connected portion of an inextendible causal curve inside an open subset is inextendible there); and , (Existence and uniqueness of the maximal common development of two developments clause (b), Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clauses (b)-(c)).
Quotient topology: for a surjection with the quotient topology a subset is open exactly when is open, and is continuous; a continuous injective open map is a homeomorphism onto its image (The quotient topology of a surjection, quotient maps, saturated sets, and the quotient of a space by an equivalence relation with its canonical projection, Topology on a set, open and closed sets, clopen sets, the closed-set axiomatisation, and the coarser/finer comparison, Continuity of at a point of and on : the - condition, its agreement with at a limit point, and continuity at an isolated point).
Countable Choice supplies the countable atlas and smooth partition. Dependent Choice is inherited from the actual maximal-common and no-corresponding-boundary supplier theorems; no arbitrary-index Axiom of Choice is used.
Proof
(Equivalence relation.) Reflexivity and symmetry of are built into its definition; for transitivity let and . If or then directly. Otherwise, up to exchanging the roles of the two members, , , ; and with forces or ; in both cases .
( and are open injections.) For open the saturation is which is open in because and are open and is a homeomorphism onto its image ([L2]); hence is open in ([L5]), and similarly for . If with , then requires or , impossible inside the disjoint union, or , i.e. ; so is injective, and similarly . Both are continuous as compositions of the continuous inclusions with ([L5]).
(The overlap.) A class has representatives in both members exactly when it has a source representative in , so . Consequently as a disjoint set decomposition. Only the two full member images and their intersection are asserted open; the complements may contain boundary points and need not be open.
(Smooth atlas.) Let and be countable atlases of and ([L2]); their existence uses applied to the countable bases of the two manifolds. Then is a countable open cover of (step 3.1) by homeomorphisms onto open subsets of . Its transition maps are of the form , the primed analogue, or (suitably restricted) on the overlap in ; the first two are smooth because the atlases are smooth, and the third is smooth because is a diffeomorphism onto the open set ([L2]). Hence is a smooth four-manifold with this structure, and it is the unique structure making diffeomorphisms onto their images, since any such structure has these charts in its atlas.
(Hausdorffness.) Two distinct classes represented in the same member are separated by images of disjoint open neighborhoods there, using step 2.1. For the remaining case choose representatives and . If , choose an open neighborhood disjoint from . Its image has no representative in , so is disjoint from the open full image containing . The symmetric argument applies when . Otherwise and . If every pair of their image neighborhoods met, then for every open , there would be with , by the exact overlap relation. This would be a corresponding boundary pair, contrary to [L1]. Thus the classes have disjoint neighborhoods.
(Second countability.) A homeomorphism transports a countable basis to a countable basis, so transporting the countable bases of and along and gives two countable bases of the open sets and ; their union is at most countable and is a basis of because every open subset of is a union of its traces in the two open parts, which are unions of members of these bases. Hence is second countable (Second countability: an at most countable basis for the topology, Finite, countably infinite, countable, uncountable).
(Metric, full matter and a future orientation field.) The pushed metrics and each fixed-model matter tensor agree on the overlap because and preserves them. Thus they define smooth on . Future cones also agree, since the common map preserves the time orientation as a cone. The representing fields themselves need not agree there. By steps 4.2-4.3, is a Hausdorff second countable smooth manifold. Under Countable Choice, a subordinate smooth partition for its two-member open cover exists by Smooth partitions of unity exist on manifolds. Define , extending each supported term by zero. This is smooth, and at each point is a nonzero future timelike vector because the weights sum to one and the timelike cone is convex (The timelike set has exactly two convex components, described in orthonormal coordinates). Both member maps therefore preserve the future cones of . All field equations depend on the metric and full fixed-model matter, rather than the arbitrary orientation representative.
(The field equations and the induced data.) The equations of the data (Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (a)4) are local and hold on and , so they hold on because is covered by the images of the two isometries (step 5.1). The map is an embedding with spacelike image, since is a diffeomorphism onto an open set and has these properties in ; its induced metric, second fundamental form and matter data are because is a data-fixing isometry ([L2]).
(The Cauchy property.) An inextendible causal curve in has a maximal portion in any open member image that it meets. By [L4] that portion is inextendible in the member and hence meets its Cauchy surface, so the whole curve meets at least once. For uniqueness, the sets are open and disjoint, and : this follows from the member side decompositions and their agreement on the common subdevelopment by causal convexity and future cone preservation. The surface is closed since its trace in each open member image is the closed member Cauchy surface. Near any surface point a future causal curve crosses from the past side to the future side, and has at most one local parameter visit, by a spacelike slice chart and strict temporal-coordinate increase. Thus the set of surface visits in a compact parameter interval is closed and locally isolated, hence finite. If two visits existed choose consecutive ones . The connected intervening image, which avoids the surface, must lie in one of . Near it lies in , whereas near it lies in . This is impossible. Therefore there is exactly one visit.
(Conclusion.) The preceding steps exhibit as a time-oriented second countable smooth Lorentzian four-manifold satisfying the field equations on , with a spacelike embedded hypersurface meeting every inextendible causal curve exactly once and carrying the induced data of the same initial data: a development of the data. The maps and are diffeomorphisms onto open subsets, isometric, time-orientation preserving, matter preserving and satisfy (step 3.1), so they are data-fixing development embeddings. This proves (a), (b) and (c).
Remarks
This is Sbierski's Theorem 2.7. Hausdorffness is exactly where the absence of corresponding boundary points of the maximal common development is used; the smooth structure and the fields descend because the maximal common development map is a data-fixing isometry, and second countability is immediate because the quotient is covered by the images of two countable atlases. No isometry class of developments is formed, and the only choice used is the stated countable selection of charts.
Existence of a universal development: the quotient of the set-sized family of canonical developments along pairwise maximal common developments
Statement
Assume the Axioms of Countable Choice and Dependent Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (), The axiom of dependent choice: a relation in which every element is related to something admits an -indexed chain). Fix the data of Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality: a smooth three-manifold with smooth Riemannian metric , smooth symmetric tensor , one fixed admissible covariant matter model with its complete smooth Cauchy data , and constants . The model and its complete data, including all required initial derivatives and prescribed fields on empty regions, are fixed throughout. Assume the supplied complete-data local existence and geometric uniqueness hypotheses apply on every spacelike restart surface occurring in comparisons, as required by that definition. Assume that at least one development of these data exists. Write and let , .
(a) The set-sized family. Let be the collection of all tuples such that is an open neighbourhood of in , is a smooth Lorentzian metric on , a time orientation and matter fields of the sector on , and is a development of the data in the sense of Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (a). Then is a set, and it is nonempty provided at least one development of the data exists.
(b) Identifications. For and let be their maximal common development, regarded as a subset of (Existence and uniqueness of the maximal common development of two developments, Common subdevelopments, maximal common developments and corresponding boundary points; in the convention of the definition it is realised inside the first member). Let and let be the equivalence relation on generated by the relations for and (a finite chain of such steps, in either order). Then the classes of two points , coincide if and only if and .
(c) The quotient. Let with quotient map . Then is a homeomorphism onto an open subset , the family covers , and is Hausdorff.
(d) Structure. is a Hausdorff, second countable smooth four-manifold and carries a unique smooth atlas (unique in the sense of maximal atlases compatible with the charts below) making all maps diffeomorphisms onto open subsets, together with a smooth Lorentzian metric , a time orientation and matter fields such that every is an isometry onto its image preserving time orientation and matter fields, and such that (independent of ) is a common embedding of with induced data . The field equations hold on , and every causal curve in that is inextendible in meets in exactly one parameter value. Consequently is a development of the data in the sense of Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (a). The representative is chosen to determine the common future cones; it need not equal the pushforward of each representative .
(e) Universality. Every development of the same data admits a data-fixing development embedding into in the sense of Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (c).
Facts & Assumptions
Given: the fixed data, the family , the disjoint union , the generated relation and the quotient .
Set-sized specification: a member of is a tuple with , , and each matter field a subset of the corresponding tensor bundle over ; these are subsets of fixed sets, so membership in is separation over a product of power sets (The power set , The Axiom Schema of Separation: for each formula , ).
Maximal common developments and pair gluing: for any two members their maximal common development exists, is a common subdevelopment realised inside , and contains the image of ; the pair quotient of Gluing two developments along their maximal common development: the quotient is a development containing both is a development of the data which is Hausdorff, second countable and smooth, in which and embed by data-fixing development embeddings; the maximality property of Existence and uniqueness of the maximal common development of two developments clause (b) applies to every common subdevelopment (Existence and uniqueness of the maximal common development of two developments, Gluing two developments along their maximal common development: the quotient is a development containing both clauses (a)-(c)).
Transitivity of the pairwise identifications: for put . Then is open and contains , and it carries a development structure of the same data: indeed maps diffeomorphically onto , the intersection of two developments of the same data sharing the initial Cauchy surface, which is a development by The intersection of two developments of the same data sharing the initial Cauchy surface is again a development, and the development structure is transported by the data-fixing isometry (Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (a), Common subdevelopments, maximal common developments and corresponding boundary points); consequently is a data-fixing isometric immersion of the development into , hence a data-fixing development embedding (A data-fixing isometric immersion of developments is injective, hence a development embedding; uniqueness of data-fixing embeddings clauses (b)-(c)), so is a common subdevelopment of and therefore and (Existence and uniqueness of the maximal common development of two developments clause (b)).
Cauchy structure of the members and of : each is a development of the data, hence globally hyperbolic with Cauchy surface ; is acausal in each member and the side decomposition holds; a maximal connected portion of a curve that is inextendible in an ambient open set and enters an open subset is inextendible there; the push-up implications hold and every closed causal segment lies on an inextendible causal curve of the ambient manifold (The existence of a Cauchy set implies strong causality and compact causal diamonds, Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (a)5, Cauchy sets are closed, split the manifold into past, set and future, and are locally Lipschitz graphs clause (a), Convergent causal ends are extendible, maximal geodesics have no limit, and Cauchy sets are acausal clauses (c)-(d), A maximal connected portion of an inextendible causal curve inside an open subset is inextendible there, The push-up rule: p << q and q <= r imply p << r, together with the timelike-piece criterion, Spacelike hypersurfaces, acausal sets, Cauchy sets, domains of dependence and Cauchy horizons).
Quotient topology: openness, continuity and the homeomorphism criterion for injective open maps (The quotient topology of a surjection, quotient maps, saturated sets, and the quotient of a space by an equivalence relation with its canonical projection, Topology on a set, open and closed sets, clopen sets, the closed-set axiomatisation, and the coarser/finer comparison, Continuity of at a point of and on : the - condition, its agreement with at a limit point, and continuity at an isolated point).
Temporal flow representation: every globally hyperbolic member is representable over : with and of Smooth Cauchy temporal splitting: a global temporal function with Cauchy levels and an orthogonal complete flow, the flow of is global and increases at unit rate along it (clauses (a),(d),(e)), so ; and an integral curve of cannot converge at an end because is continuous there while tending to (Continuity of at a point of and on : the - condition, its agreement with at a limit point, and continuity at an isolated point).
Intersection of developments: if two developments of the data share the initial Cauchy surface, their intersection carries a development structure of the data on which both embedding maps restrict to data-fixing development embeddings (The intersection of two developments of the same data sharing the initial Cauchy surface is again a development Statement); applied successively this yields the same for a finite intersection of subdevelopments of a common member.
Local exponential arguments are applied inside a member, which is a genuine second countable Lorentzian manifold: its joint exponential map has a smooth inverse near the diagonal, sufficiently small convex normal neighborhoods exist, and a contained timelike chord has timelike inverse velocity (The joint exponential map: smoothness, invertible differential at the diagonal, and the small-velocity two-point inverse clauses (a)-(c), Existence of strictly convex normal neighborhoods: small coordinate balls are normal neighborhoods of each of their points clauses (a)-(b), Pointwise local causality: closed cones, openness of the local chronological future, no local closed causal curves, corner smoothing and closedness of the local causal relation). Uniqueness of the geodesic ODE lets these local maps patch in the quotient atlas; the maximal exponential domain on is open and the exponential is locally smooth, as follows by following a compact geodesic segment through finitely many member charts (The geodesic initial-value problem and the exponential map of the metric-selected connection). This is a local construction, not an application of a theorem whose hypotheses already require second countability of .
Countable Choice supplies a countable dense subset of the second countable initial manifold and tangent bases at countably many selected points; countable unions of countable sets are countable, and rational vectors and rational translated balls are dense and form a Euclidean basis (Assuming countable choice, every second countable space is separable, Separability: the existence of an at most countable dense subset, Countable unions of at most countable sets, assuming , Finite, countably infinite, countable, uncountable, The Axiom of Countable Choice (), Both and are dense in , and every nonempty open subset of is uncountable, Basis and subbasis for a topology, and the topology generated by a family of sets).
Once is second countable, its Hausdorff locally Euclidean smooth atlas makes it a smooth manifold, and Countable Choice gives a smooth partition of unity subordinate to its member cover. A finite positive weighted sum of vectors in one future timelike cone remains future timelike (Smooth manifolds and their smooth charts, Smooth partitions of unity exist on manifolds, The timelike set has exactly two convex components, described in orthonormal coordinates).
Countable Choice is used for dense points, countably many tangent bases and the partition of unity. Dependent Choice permits the successive compatible countable choices in the recursion and is inherited from temporal splitting; separation and formation of power sets require neither choice axiom.
Proof
(Clause (a).) Each member is determined by four subsets of fixed sets as in [L1], so separation makes a set; it is nonempty whenever some development of the data exists, by transporting that development through the flow representation [L6] (this transport is carried out in the proof of clause (e) below and uses no new hypothesis).
(Canonical representation of an arbitrary development.) Let be a development. By [L4] it is globally hyperbolic with Cauchy surface . Let be as in [L6]. Each integral curve is defined on and satisfies , so it has no endpoint in and meets exactly once. The map , , is therefore bijective and smooth. At its differential sends tangent vectors from to and the time direction to . Since is spacelike, is not tangent to it; since is a diffeomorphism with inverse , these images span . Thus is a bijective local diffeomorphism, hence a diffeomorphism. Pulling back the metric, orientation representative and matter fields gives a tuple on in , with . This proves nonemptiness from the assumed development. The associated quotient embedding will be concluded after the quotient structure is established.
(Clause (b): transitivity of the pairwise identifications.) The identity common development of a member with itself gives and by maximality [L2]; reversing a common-development embedding gives the same identifications in the opposite order, by the same maximality. Let , , with via and via . Then and , so , and by [L3] the pair is a common subdevelopment of and mapping to . By the maximality property of the maximal common development of and , and . Hence the identification of with holds at chain length two, and by induction at every finite chain length; the converse inclusion is the definition of the generating relations. This proves (b).
(Clause (c): the member maps and Hausdorffness.) By [L5] the map is continuous; it is injective because step 2.1 reduces any identification of points in to the maximal common development with itself, which is by the identity common development and maximality [L2]. Openness: the saturation of an open is the union over of , which by step 2.1 equals a union of open sets, because each is a diffeomorphism onto the open set and is open. Hence each is a homeomorphism onto the open set , and the cover because every class has a representative. For Hausdorffness let with , . Consider the pair quotient of [L2] with its canonical map ; by step 2.1 the classes of and are distinct in (otherwise they would be identified by a chain, hence by the single pairwise identification), and is Hausdorff, so there are disjoint open , in . The map is injective (step 2.1), continuous and open (the saturation argument above applies to the two-member family), hence a homeomorphism onto its open image; thus are disjoint open neighbourhoods of in . This proves (c).
(The local smooth structure, fields and future cones.) Compose the charts of each member with . On , the transitions use the smooth data-fixing diffeomorphism , so these charts generate a unique maximal compatible smooth atlas. The metrics and matter fields agree on overlaps and descend to ; the field equations hold locally. The pushforwards of need not agree as vectors, but they select the same future timelike component on every overlap because preserves future cones. Thus there is a consistent locally smooth choice of future cones, before any global representative field is asserted. The maps agree and define an embedded spacelike with the prescribed induced data, since every member contains this entire surface and each member map is a diffeomorphism onto an open subset.
(A countable dense set without assuming second countability of .) Choose a countable dense . At every newly occurring point choose one tangent basis and retain it at all later stages; let be its rational span. Recursively set and . These sets are countable by [L9], using the declared choice axioms for the recursion. To show density, take and its member flow line from to given by [L6]. If its flow parameter is zero, density of in suffices. Otherwise partition its compact segment into finitely many nonconstant timelike subsegments, each contained in a convex normal neighborhood within this member. Write their endpoints . For negative flow parameter the chords are past timelike; for positive parameter they are future timelike. We show inductively : if has this property, choose sufficiently near . In the local two-point inverse the vector is timelike by continuity and openness of the timelike set. Approximate it by a timelike so closely that the member geodesic remains defined to time one and lies in any prescribed neighborhood of within . Such exists by rational density and openness of the local exponential domain. If , then , with no claim that . The exact inverse satisfies ; no approximation error is added for this equality. This proves the induction and density of in .
(An explicit countable basis.) In each fixed tangent basis at , let denote a Euclidean ball with rational center and rational radius . Form the family of all for which the ball lies in the exponential domain and restricts to a diffeomorphism onto an open subset of . This family is countable by [L9] and consists of open sets by its definition. Given with open, choose a member containing and use its joint exponential inverse near . For all in a sufficiently small open neighborhood of in that member, there is a velocity inside an open fiber domain on which is a diffeomorphism onto an open set containing . Choose such by step 5.1. The open set contains , so a rational translated ball in the fixed basis at contains and lies in this open set. Its image is a family member containing and contained in . This proves the basis criterion and hence second countability of .
(A smooth global orientation representative.) The quotient is now a smooth manifold in the full sense of [L10]. Choose a subordinate locally finite smooth partition of unity for the member cover and put , extending each summand by zero outside . Each summand is smooth because its support lies in ; the sum is locally finite. At every point the nonzero summands are positive multiples of vectors in the same future timelike component by step 4.1 and at least one coefficient is positive since the coefficients sum to one. Cone convexity makes smooth, nowhere zero and future timelike. Every member map therefore preserves time orientation in the sense of preserving future cones. The metric and matter fields are the descended fields of step 4.1; the particular representative is not claimed unique.
(Clause (d): the Cauchy property, at least one meeting.) Let be a causal curve inextendible in and pick with . Let be the connected component of containing . By [L4] the restriction is inextendible in the open set , so its pullback under the diffeomorphism is a causal curve in inextendible in ; by [L4] it meets in exactly one parameter value, so meets .
(Compatible side decomposition.) In each member write as in [L4]. For the side computed in is the same as in : a timelike curve inside the subdevelopment gives membership in the corresponding ambient side, and these sides are disjoint. The isometry identifies these subdevelopment sides with those in its image in , so the side in is identical. It follows that and are disjoint open sets and . In particular is closed. A future causal segment in a member that starts on its Cauchy surface lies, immediately afterwards, in its future side, and one ending on the surface lies immediately beforehand in its past side: extend the segment to an inextendible causal curve in that member; the unique Cauchy meeting and the disjoint side decomposition give the stated sides. More explicitly, any future-side point before the meeting would yield a timelike curve from the surface followed by a causal segment back to it, contrary to acausality; the past-side case after the meeting is its time reverse, using the push-up rule underlying the member side decomposition.
(At most one Cauchy meeting.) Suppose a future causal curve has two parameter values on . In a member neighborhood of any meeting it can meet at most once, since is the member's acausal Cauchy surface. Thus its meeting parameters form a relatively closed locally discrete subset; on the compact interval between the proposed two meetings it is finite, and we may choose consecutive meetings . The connected image misses , so by step 8.2 it lies wholly in either or . Near it lies in a member containing , and the member side observation of step 8.2 puts it in . Near the same observation puts it in . This contradicts the disjointness of these sides. A past causal curve is treated by reversing its parameter. Together with step 8.1, every inextendible causal curve meets exactly once; all development conditions, including second countability, hold.
(Universality.) For an arbitrary development , use its canonical representative and diffeomorphism from step 1.2. The map is a diffeomorphism onto an open subset, an isometry preserving future cones and matter fields, and takes to . Hence it is a data-fixing development embedding, proving (e).
(Conclusion.) Steps 1.1 and 1.2 establish (a), step 2.1 establishes (b), step 3.1 establishes (c), steps 4.1-9.1 establish (d), and step 10.1 establishes (e).
Remarks
The dense-set and translated-ball arguments are supplied locally here before selecting the global time-orientation field, so no second-countability or partition-of-unity circularity is hidden. The separate dense-set and second-countability lemmas retain explicit reusable constructions. The choice of future cones, unlike their auxiliary smooth representative, is forced by the members. The quotient construction uses neither Zorn's lemma nor a selection of isometry-class representatives.
A countable dense subset of the universal development by rational timelike exponential steps from a dense subset of the initial surface
Statement
Assume the Axioms of Countable Choice and Dependent Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (), The axiom of dependent choice: a relation in which every element is related to something admits an -indexed chain). Let and the family of member maps be as in Existence of a universal development: the quotient of the set-sized family of canonical developments along pairwise maximal common developments clauses (c)-(d), so that is a Hausdorff locally Euclidean smooth four-manifold with a smooth Lorentzian metric , the sets are open and cover , and is the embedded initial surface. Then there is a countable subset with:
(a) is dense in ; and
(b) is dense in .
Moreover can be chosen of the following explicit form: with a countable dense subset of , and having chosen once at its first occurrence for every a basis of and defined one sets
Facts & Assumptions
Given: the universal development of Existence of a universal development: the quotient of the set-sized family of canonical developments along pairwise maximal common developments with its covering family of member maps, and the initial surface .
Structural properties of : every is open, the maps are diffeomorphisms onto the , and carries a smooth Lorentzian metric with respect to which each is an isometry; is Hausdorff and locally Euclidean (Existence of a universal development: the quotient of the set-sized family of canonical developments along pairwise maximal common developments clauses (c)-(d)). Each member is a development of the data, hence globally hyperbolic with Cauchy surface by The existence of a Cauchy set implies strong causality and compact causal diamonds (Chronology, causality, strong causality, global hyperbolicity and time functions clause (c), Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (a)).
The initial surface is a second countable smooth three-manifold: it is the underlying manifold of the data, so it is Hausdorff and second countable and carries a smooth structure (Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality, Second countability: an at most countable basis for the topology, and smooth maps between smooth manifolds). By Assuming countable choice, every second countable space is separable (Countable Choice) it is separable, so there is a countable dense subset (Separability: the existence of an at most countable dense subset).
Exponential machinery: the joint exponential map is smooth on its open domain; for every point there is a strictly convex normal ball around it on which is a diffeomorphism onto the ball, with inverse given by the two-point inverse velocity ; that inverse satisfies a Lipschitz bound in coordinates, and it is continuous in (The joint exponential map: smoothness, invertible differential at the diagonal, and the small-velocity two-point inverse clauses (a),(c),(d), Existence of strictly convex normal neighborhoods: small coordinate balls are normal neighborhoods of each of their points clauses (a)-(b), The geodesic initial-value problem and the exponential map of the metric-selected connection).
Timelike chords in convex balls: if are two points of a strictly convex normal ball and lies on the endpoint set in of a future timelike curve with image in starting at , then for a timelike (Pointwise local causality: closed cones, openness of the local chronological future, no local closed causal curves, corner smoothing and closedness of the local causal relation clause (a), applied with base point ). The set of timelike vectors at a point is open in the tangent space, and the rational span of a basis is dense in the tangent space in the coordinates of that basis (Causal curves, chronological and causal reachability, and inextendibility, Both and are dense in , and every nonempty open subset of is uncountable).
Flow representation of a member: a globally hyperbolic member with Cauchy surface admits a smooth temporal function with a complete future timelike flow field whose flow lines are inextendible timelike curves, each meeting exactly once; consequently every equals for a unique and (Smooth Cauchy temporal splitting: a global temporal function with Cauchy levels and an orthogonal complete flow clauses (a),(c),(d),(e), Spacelike hypersurfaces, acausal sets, Cauchy sets, domains of dependence and Cauchy horizons clause (c)).
Counting: a countable union of countable sets is countable (Countable unions of at most countable sets, assuming , Finite, countably infinite, countable, uncountable). Countable Choice supplies each stage's bases and the initial dense set; Dependent Choice supplies the sequence of compatible assignments (The Axiom of Countable Choice (), The axiom of dependent choice: a relation in which every element is related to something admits an -indexed chain).
Proof
(The set .) Choose a countable dense subset ([L2]) and set . Recursively, given the countable set , choose by Countable Choice a basis of at every newly added point, retaining all previously chosen bases, form as in the statement, and define by adding all points with , timelike and defined. Dependent Choice supplies successive compatible choices of these basis assignments and sets. Each is countable, being the image of a subset of the countable set ; hence is countable by [L6]. Since , claim (a) holds.
(Chains of timelike chords, including the past direction.) Fix and a member containing it. In that member the complete flow of [L5] joins a point to with a parameter . If , then and is already in the closure of . Otherwise finitely many convex normal neighborhoods cover this compact flow segment; a sufficiently fine finite partition of the segment has each subsegment contained in one of those neighborhoods. Write the ordered endpoints along the flow from to as . The inverse velocity for each contained joining geodesic is timelike by [L4], using future chords when and past chords when (reverse the future-directed chord and use the time reversal of the geodesic). The recursion includes both future and past timelike vectors.
(Propagation of closure, without a stage-index assumption.) Work in and prove by induction. The case follows from the density of in , since lies in every member. Suppose the claim holds for , and prescribe any open neighborhood of within this member. The two-point inverse is defined for close to in the convex neighborhood of step 1.2 and tends to the timelike vector . Hence, for sufficiently close , it is timelike. Choose such a by the induction hypothesis. There is an open neighborhood of in on which vectors remain timelike, the member geodesic remains defined to time one, and its exponential image lies in , by openness and continuity of the member exponential. Choose a vector in the fixed rational span at in this neighborhood. Its quotient exponential equals its member exponential by uniqueness of the geodesic ODE and remains in . As for some , the recursion gives . This proves that every such meets , completing the induction. The exact inverse identity has zero error; only approximation of this vector by contributes an endpoint error.
(Density.) Step 2.1 gives (and the case follows from step 1.2). Since is open in , every open neighborhood of in therefore meets . Hence is dense in .
(Conclusion.) The preceding steps construct a countable set with dense in and dense in , of the stated explicit recursive form.
Remarks
The construction uses rational spans in bases fixed at each point once and retains them throughout the recursion. Both time directions are included. Its density argument requires only the flow and local exponential machinery of an individual member, so it also proves density before second countability of the quotient is available. Dependent Choice supplies successive compatible countable selections; Countable Choice supplies each stage's bases and the initial dense set.
An explicit rational-exponential basis for the universal development quotient
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice ()). Let and the member maps be as in Existence of a universal development: the quotient of the set-sized family of canonical developments along pairwise maximal common developments clauses (c)-(d): is a Hausdorff locally Euclidean smooth four-manifold with a smooth Lorentzian metric , the open sets cover , and each is a diffeomorphism onto . Let be a countable dense subset, as supplied by A countable dense subset of the universal development by rational timelike exponential steps from a dense subset of the initial surface. When and are obtained from these development suppliers, retain their Countable Choice and Dependent Choice hypotheses (The axiom of dependent choice: a relation in which every element is related to something admits an -indexed chain). The basis construction conditional on the supplied uses Countable Choice only. Choose one basis at each . In these coordinates let be the Euclidean open ball centered at with radius , and let be the maximal exponential domain. Then is a countable basis of the topology of . This exhibits an explicit basis for the second-countability conclusion of Existence of a universal development: the quotient of the set-sized family of canonical developments along pairwise maximal common developments clause (d).
Facts & Assumptions
Given: the universal development with its member maps and a countable dense subset .
The member images are open and cover , and the member maps are diffeomorphisms preserving the metric (Existence of a universal development: the quotient of the set-sized family of canonical developments along pairwise maximal common developments clauses (c)-(d)). Exponential maps agree with their member counterparts whenever the corresponding segment stays in the member, by uniqueness of the geodesic ODE (The geodesic initial-value problem and the exponential map of the metric-selected connection).
Inside a member containing a prescribed point , the joint exponential map has a diffeomorphic restriction near with image containing a product neighborhood of . Its smooth inverse gives for every in a sufficiently small neighborhood of . For each such , its open fiber domain maps diffeomorphically onto an open subset of the member containing (The joint exponential map: smoothness, invertible differential at the diagonal, and the small-velocity two-point inverse clauses (a)-(c)). This argument can be performed entirely inside the member, even without using second countability of .
Countable Choice supplies one basis at each . Rational translated balls form a basis of the resulting Euclidean tangent space, and is countable; every subfamily and image of this set is countable (The Axiom of Countable Choice (), Finite, countably infinite, countable, uncountable, Countable unions of at most countable sets, assuming , Both and are dense in , and every nonempty open subset of is uncountable, Basis and subbasis for a topology, and the topology generated by a family of sets).
Proof
(Countability and openness.) Use [L3] to choose the tangent bases. The family is the image of a subset of the countable indexing set and hence countable. Each member is open by the defining diffeomorphism condition. No arbitrary small exponential domain is fixed at a dense center.
(The basis criterion.) Let with open. Choose a member containing and the product neighborhood of supplied by [L2]. Its first factor is an open neighborhood of in . Choose by density. The inverse velocity lies in , where is a diffeomorphism onto an open subset of this member. Thus is an open neighborhood of in . In the chosen basis at , select a rational translated ball containing and contained in this neighborhood by [L3]. By [L1]-[L2], the quotient exponential on this ball agrees with the member exponential and restricts to a diffeomorphism onto an open subset of , so its image belongs to and satisfies .
(Conclusion.) Steps 1.1 and 2.1 show that is a countable family of open sets satisfying the basis criterion. Therefore it is a countable basis and is second countable (Second countability: an at most countable basis for the topology).
Remarks
Translated balls are necessary in this construction: after one selects arbitrarily small normal domains at dense centers, their centered subballs need not cover any prescribed point outside . The family above uses all rational translated balls on which the exponential is a diffeomorphism, rather than one selected normal domain per center. The proof gives a general local-exponential countability criterion and does not invoke the conclusion of second countability from the universal-development lemma.
Existence and uniqueness of the smooth maximal globally hyperbolic development of constrained initial data in the selected matter sectors
Statement
Assume the Axioms of Countable Choice and Dependent Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (), The axiom of dependent choice: a relation in which every element is related to something admits an -indexed chain). Let , , let be a connected smooth three-manifold with smooth Riemannian metric and smooth symmetric -tensor , and let smooth complete matter initial data be given for one fixed admissible covariant coupled model of Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality, with the constraints satisfied and at least one development existing. The supplied local existence and uniqueness obligations must hold for that same model and for the complete data at every spacelike restart used in the proof. This includes vacuum, scalar, strict barotropic fluid and geodesic nonnegative tilted dust (with velocity prescribed through zero density) via High-regularity local developments for the selected matter sectors: vacuum with Lambda, scalar, strict barotropic fluid and geodesic dust; additional fixed models must supply the same actual obligations. Then there exists a development of the data in the sense of Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (a) that is maximal in the sense of clause (d) of that definition: for every development of the same data there is a data-fixing development embedding . Moreover, if is another maximal development of the same data, then there is exactly one data-fixing isometry ; the maximal development is thus unique up to a unique data-fixing isometry. It is connected and, by The existence of a Cauchy set implies strong causality and compact causal diamonds, globally hyperbolic with Cauchy surface .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Countable Choice, Dependent Choice, connected complete constrained initial data of the specified fixed admissible model, and at least one development, with the actual branch local existence and geometric uniqueness/restart obligations supplied.
The set-sized family and the quotient: the family of canonical developments over is a set, the generated identification relation on the disjoint union is given by the pairwise maximal common developments, and the quotient is Hausdorff, locally Euclidean and smooth with a Lorentzian metric, time orientation and matter fields, all member maps being diffeomorphisms onto open sets preserving the structure; these maps are data-fixing isometries onto their images, and every causal curve in inextendible in meets the initial surface exactly once (Existence of a universal development: the quotient of the set-sized family of canonical developments along pairwise maximal common developments clauses (a)-(d)).
Second countability of : there is a countable dense subset of , and from it and the convex normal exponential charts a countable basis of is produced; hence is second countable (A countable dense subset of the universal development by rational timelike exponential steps from a dense subset of the initial surface, An explicit rational-exponential basis for the universal development quotient).
Every development embeds into : for every development of the data there is a data-fixing development embedding into (Existence of a universal development: the quotient of the set-sized family of canonical developments along pairwise maximal common developments clause (e)).
Rigidity and uniqueness of data-fixing maps: a data-fixing isometric immersion between developments is injective and a diffeomorphism onto its open image; on a connected development two data-fixing isometric immersions coincide; and every data-fixing self-isometry of a connected development is the identity (A data-fixing isometric immersion of developments is injective, hence a development embedding; uniqueness of data-fixing embeddings clauses (b)-(c), Rigidity of isometric immersions of a connected Lorentzian manifold, and agreement of data-fixing embeddings on overlaps clause (a)).
Connectedness of members and of : if is connected, every member is connected, and is connected. Indeed, each member contains and is a development, so a maximal timelike geodesic through any point is inextendible in that member and meets its Cauchy surface. Its connected image lies in the component of that point, proving every component meets (Convergent causal ends are extendible, maximal geodesics have no limit, and Cauchy sets are acausal clause (b), Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (a)5); the member maps identify these initial surfaces, so the union of the images is connected.
Development axioms of : with [L2] the space satisfies every clause of Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (a), i.e. it is a time-oriented second countable smooth Lorentzian four-manifold with a Cauchy embedding of , the field equations, and the induced data; hence is a development of the data.
Proof
(Existence.) Let be the quotient of Existence of a universal development: the quotient of the set-sized family of canonical developments along pairwise maximal common developments. By [L1] it is Hausdorff and locally Euclidean with a smooth atlas, metric, time orientation and matter fields; by [L2] it is second countable; by [L1] its initial surface is met exactly once by every inextendible causal curve and the field equations and induced data hold. Hence by [L6] is a development of the data.
(Maximality.) Let be a development of the data. By [L3] there is a data-fixing development embedding . Hence every development admits a data-fixing development embedding into , which is the maximality property of Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (d).
(Uniqueness.) Let both be maximal developments of the data. By maximality of applied to the development , there is a data-fixing development embedding ; by maximality of applied to , there is . The composition is a data-fixing isometric immersion of the development into itself (compositions of isometric immersions preserving the data and the time orientation are again such); by [L4] it is the identity of because is connected by [L5]. Similarly . Hence is a data-fixing isometry with inverse , and are isometric over the data.
(Uniqueness of the isometry.) If are both data-fixing isometries, then on the connected development the two data-fixing isometric immersions coincide by [L4]; hence the isometry is unique.
(Conclusion.) The preceding steps show that the quotient of Existence of a universal development: the quotient of the set-sized family of canonical developments along pairwise maximal common developments is a maximal development of the data to which every development embeds by a data-fixing development embedding, and that any two maximal developments are related by exactly one data-fixing isometry. This is the assertion.
Remarks
The theorem is the mathematical content of Sbierski's Theorems 2.7 and 2.8 for the stated fixed admissible coupled model, including the four concrete smooth matter branches. The physical reading of the objects, and the question whether the data represent an observed configuration, are not part of this statement; see Conditional model deduction: the adopted field law and matter model yield a maximal globally hyperbolic development of constraint-satisfying initial data for the conditional model deduction and Scope and empirical qualifications of the maximal globally hyperbolic development: model content, idealisations, and no observational claims for the empirical qualifications. For disconnected second countable initial data the proof is applied to the at most countably many connected components and their disjoint union, which is again second countable; every development restricts componentwise by its Cauchy surface, so the same existence, maximality and uniqueness statements hold.
Conditional model deduction: the adopted field law and matter model yield a maximal globally hyperbolic development of constraint-satisfying initial data
Conditional smooth classical Einstein-matter Cauchy problem for one fixed admissible covariant coupled model with complete constrained data, actual local and spacelike restart hypotheses, and Countable/Dependent Choice. Includes vacuum, scalar, strict fluid and nonnegative tilted dust with independent zero-density velocity; no empirical conclusion or geodesic-completeness claim.
Statement
Assume Countable Choice and Dependent Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (), The axiom of dependent choice: a relation in which every element is related to something admits an -indexed chain) for the mathematical suppliers.
Adopt the postulates Adopted Einstein field equation in the direct-equation presentation (the Einstein field law for a Lorentzian four-metric with cosmological constant and coupling ), Adopted spacetime model and classical domain of the gravitational framework (the classical smooth Lorentzian domain, time orientation and the identification of as the gravitational field), and Adopted matter-content assumptions: fields, equations, stress-energy and energy conditions (the selected matter sectors, their equations of motion and stress-energy tensors, and the requirement that the coupled system be treated within the stated regularity).
Adopt the specified fixed matter equations and stress expression as model premises as well; for any additional model beyond the concrete sectors of the cited postulate, these are additional stipulated premises. Mathematical admissibility does not itself assert a physical matter law.
Let be a connected smooth three-manifold, let be a smooth Riemannian metric and a smooth symmetric -tensor on , and let complete smooth initial data for one fixed admissible coupled model of Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality be given, satisfying the constraints of Gauss-Codazzi decomposition in Gaussian normal coordinates and the constraint equations in terms of the induced metric and second fundamental form. Assume its actual local existence and uniqueness/restart hypotheses, including complete matter initialization and recovery. The concrete branches of High-regularity local developments for the selected matter sectors: vacuum with Lambda, scalar, strict barotropic fluid and geodesic dust include vacuum, scalar, strict fluid and nonnegative tilted geodesic dust with velocity through zero density; any further model must supply the same fixed-model obligations. Then, as a conditional deduction from the adopted model:
(a) there exists a development of these data in which solves the adopted field law with the adopted stress-energy tensor and the matter fields solve the adopted matter equations, and which is maximal among developments of the same data in the sense of Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (d);
(b) every development of the same data admits a data-fixing development embedding into , and any two maximal developments of the same data are related by exactly one data-fixing isometry; thus within the model the maximal development is determined by the initial data up to isometry fixing the initial surface;
(c) is globally hyperbolic with Cauchy surface , so the deduction yields a deterministic initial-value formulation inside the model for those complete constrained data that also satisfy the stated admissibility and local/restart hypotheses.
The conclusion is a statement about the adopted model: it asserts that the postulated equations, together with the mathematical hypotheses on the data and the regularity requirements of the sector, imply the existence and uniqueness of the maximal development as a conditional consequence. It makes no assertion that the model or its data describe any observed system, and carries no empirical content beyond the model premises.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Countable Choice, Dependent Choice, the adopted postulates Adopted Einstein field equation in the direct-equation presentation, Adopted spacetime model and classical domain of the gravitational framework, Adopted matter-content assumptions: fields, equations, stress-energy and energy conditions, and complete initial data of the fixed admissible model satisfying the constraints and actual local/restart hypotheses.
Einstein field law: within the model, the gravitational field is a Lorentzian metric on a four-manifold, time oriented as in Adopted spacetime model and classical domain of the gravitational framework, and satisfies , where is the stress-energy tensor built from and the matter fields of the adopted sector (Adopted Einstein field equation in the direct-equation presentation, Adopted matter-content assumptions: fields, equations, stress-energy and energy conditions).
Matter assumptions: the specified fixed model's full field content, equations and stress expression are adopted as premises. The concrete vacuum, scalar, strict barotropic fluid and geodesic nonnegative tilted dust branches have the explicit definitions and regularity/recovery requirements in High-regularity local developments for the selected matter sectors: vacuum with Lambda, scalar, strict barotropic fluid and geodesic dust (Adopted matter-content assumptions: fields, equations, stress-energy and energy conditions, The scalar-field matter model of the classical gravitational framework, The perfect-fluid matter model: rest energy density, pressure, four-velocity and stress-energy, The dust matter model: rest density, four-velocity, stress-energy and dust system).
Mathematical existence input: the actual fixed-model hypotheses supply at least one smooth development and geometric uniqueness near the full initial surface. Use Local geometric development for a fixed covariant Einstein-matter model with complete constrained data only when its full harmonic initialization, compatibility recovery, admissibility and conservation hypotheses hold; geodesic nonnegative tilted dust uses its independent common-flow/frame branch, including the prescribed velocity through zero density, in High-regularity local developments for the selected matter sectors: vacuum with Lambda, scalar, strict barotropic fluid and geodesic dust. The same model hypotheses must apply to each realized spacelike restart.
Mathematical closure: assuming at least one such development exists, the data have a maximal development, unique up to a unique data-fixing isometry, and every development embeds into it by a data-fixing development embedding (Existence and uniqueness of the smooth maximal globally hyperbolic development of constrained initial data in the selected matter sectors); a development is globally hyperbolic with the initial surface as a Cauchy surface (The existence of a Cauchy set implies strong causality and compact causal diamonds as used there, Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality).
Scope: the constraint equations are conditions on and the matter initial data in the model; they are not empirical observations, and the data are model inputs (Gauss-Codazzi decomposition in Gaussian normal coordinates and the constraint equations in terms of the induced metric and second fundamental form, Spacelike initial data, the constraint equations, developments and maximal developments). No statistical, measurement or apparatus assumptions enter this deduction.
Proof
(Relating the postulates to the mathematical model.) By [F1] and [F2] the field law and matter equations are those of the specified fixed model, with its complete data and actual admissibility/local uniqueness obligations; the four concrete sectors of High-regularity local developments for the selected matter sectors: vacuum with Lambda, scalar, strict barotropic fluid and geodesic dust are included at their stated branch hypotheses. By [A1] the constraint equations are the model's compatibility conditions on the data.
(Existence of at least one development.) Under the hypotheses on the data the reduction hypotheses hold, so by [F3] the data admit at least one smooth development within the model's equations.
(The maximal development exists and is unique.) Applying [F4] with step 2.1 as the nonemptiness input, the data have a maximal development which is unique up to a unique data-fixing isometry, and every development embeds into it. This is (a) and (b).
(Global hyperbolicity.) By [F4] the maximal development is globally hyperbolic with Cauchy surface ; hence the model's initial-value problem restricted to the constraint-satisfying data is deterministic: two iterations of the same data are isometric fixing the initial surface. This is (c).
(Conditional character and scope.) The chain of steps 1.1-4.1 is a conditional deduction: each physical ingredient enters only through the adopted postulates [F1]-[F2], and each mathematical step is a theorem with explicitly stated hypotheses. The deduction establishes no statement about the physical universe and no observational claim; if a sector's regularity assumptions or the constraint equations fail for data of interest, the deduction does not apply. This completes the proof of the conditional assertion.
Remarks
This item records the model-level content of the mathematical theorem Existence and uniqueness of the smooth maximal globally hyperbolic development of constrained initial data in the selected matter sectors: postulating the field law and matter models, constraint-satisfying smooth data determine a maximal globally hyperbolic development uniquely up to isometry fixing the data. The physical interpretation of , the status of the idealisation of smoothness and of the specific matter sectors, the absence of any claim of global existence, completeness or genericity, and the boundary between model deduction and observation are recorded in Scope and empirical qualifications of the maximal globally hyperbolic development: model content, idealisations, and no observational claims. The mathematical supplier is a theorem of draft status in this library; if its hypotheses were to fail for data of interest, this conditional deduction would fail with them.
Scope and empirical qualifications of the maximal globally hyperbolic development: model content, idealisations, and no observational claims
Conditional classical general relativity for smooth globally hyperbolic developments of a fixed admissible covariant coupled matter model with compatible complete Cauchy data and the stated analytic and geometric hypotheses. This remark records the existing mathematical choice premises, regularity, idealisations and empirical limits; it reports no measurement or claim about the observed universe.
Scope and empirical qualifications
This remark records how Conditional model deduction: the adopted field law and matter model yield a maximal globally hyperbolic development of constraint-satisfying initial data is to be read; it adds no new mathematical claim.
(a) The deduction is conditional on the adopted postulates. The existence and uniqueness of the maximal development is a logical consequence of Adopted Einstein field equation in the direct-equation presentation, Adopted spacetime model and classical domain of the gravitational framework, Adopted matter-content assumptions: fields, equations, stress-energy and energy conditions and the mathematical theorem Existence and uniqueness of the smooth maximal globally hyperbolic development of constrained initial data in the selected matter sectors, applied to data that satisfy the constraints, complete-data regularity and actual local existence/geometric uniqueness/restart hypotheses of the fixed admissible coupled model in Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality. Countable Choice and Dependent Choice are mathematical premises. The vacuum, scalar, strict-fluid and nonnegative tilted geodesic dust branches of High-regularity local developments for the selected matter sectors: vacuum with Lambda, scalar, strict barotropic fluid and geodesic dust are included, with independently prescribed dust velocity through zero density; the conclusion is not confined to those four models and does not follow from an arbitrary conserved stress tensor. Granting the postulates, the deduction is a theorem about the model; it is not evidence that the model describes nature.
(b) The initial data are model inputs, not observations. The data are idealised smooth fields on an idealised smooth connected three-manifold; constraint-satisfying choices are mathematical objects. If a physical situation is modelled by such data, the accuracy of that modelling and the errors in choosing the data are separate questions not addressed by the deduction. No measurement, apparatus, sample or statistical inference occurs in the delivered claims, and none should be attributed to them.
(c) Maximality is a statement inside the smooth globally hyperbolic class. "Maximal" in Smooth developments of constrained initial data, data-fixing isometries, development embeddings and maximality clause (d) means: every smooth development of the same data embeds into by a data-fixing development embedding. It does not mean that is geodesically complete, that no larger Lorentzian manifold of any kind extends it, or that it maximises any geometric quantity. Extensions that are not globally hyperbolic, or -developments with in the sense of the sector's regularity, are outside the class compared by the theorem.
(d) Uniqueness is up to a unique data-fixing isometry. Two maximal developments of the same data are isometric by exactly one isometry commuting with the initial embeddings and preserving the matter fields and time orientation; the "solution" of the model's initial-value problem is an isometry class of developments, not a distinguished coordinate representative. The uniqueness conclusion says nothing about the multiplicity of stationary or periodic solutions of the field equations unrelated to the given data.
(e) Regularity, matter and topological hypotheses are active. The deduction requires the smooth four-dimensional regularity of the adopted domain, the fixed covariant coupled matter model with its full equations and stress expression, the smoothness and completeness of the initial data in the sense of the constraint framework, and the second countability of the initial manifold. If the sector assumptions are modified (for example to non-smooth matter, matter with additional gauge freedom, or a different stress-energy model), the deduction must be re-established for the modified system; the mathematical reductions of High-regularity local developments for the selected matter sectors: vacuum with Lambda, scalar, strict barotropic fluid and geodesic dust are exactly where those hypotheses enter.
(f) No claim about the observed universe. The statement that "given initial data, the model has a maximal development" is a conditional deduction. It does not assert that the actual universe is globally hyperbolic, that smooth initial data describe any particular epoch, or that any observed phenomenon is predicted by the development of specific data. Comparisons of developments with observations test the combined model and apparatus assumptions; agreement is evidence and not a proof of the model.
5 · Examples, experiments and counterexamples
None yet.
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- H. S. Reall, Part III General Relativity (Cambridge, October 12, 2022 revision): the domain of dependence of a spacelike surface and the maximal Cauchy development, section 10.5 printed pp. 123-124 (PDF pp. 124-125)
- J. Sbierski, On the Existence of a Maximal Cauchy Development for the Einstein Equations - a Dezornification, arXiv:1309.7591v3 (2015): Definition 2.4 (common development realised as a subset of one development), Theorem 3.4 (maximal common development), Definition 3.5 and Proposition 3.7 (corresponding boundary points), printed pp. 11-16
- P. T. Chrusciel, Elements of causality theory, arXiv:1110.6706 (2011): causal convexity and the elementary regions of Theorem 2.9.9, printed pp. 46-50
- J. Sbierski, On the Existence of a Maximal Cauchy Development for the Einstein Equations - a Dezornification, arXiv:1309.7591v3 (2015): the global hyperbolicity argument in the proof of Theorem 3.4 step 2 and the causal-convexity argument in the proof of Lemma 3.9, printed pp. 14 and 17
- P. T. Chrusciel, Elements of causality theory, arXiv:1110.6706 (2011): causal convexity and domains of dependence, Proposition 2.2.3, Definition 2.2.7 and Theorem 2.9.9 with its proof, printed pp. 8-13 and 46-50
- E. Minguzzi, Lorentzian causality theory, Living Reviews in Relativity 22 (2019), article 3: causal convexity and the elementary regions of Proposition 2.84 and Proposition 3.43, printed pp. 59-60 and 97-99
- J. Sbierski, On the Existence of a Maximal Cauchy Development for the Einstein Equations - a Dezornification, arXiv:1309.7591v3 (2015): the step 'the corresponding curve segment in U_alpha can be considered to be an inextendible timelike curve in U_alpha' in the proof of Theorem 3.4 step 2, printed p. 14
- P. T. Chrusciel, Elements of causality theory, arXiv:1110.6706 (2011): inextendible causal curves and their segments, Definitions 2.2.7 and 2.9.8 and Theorem 2.9.9, printed pp. 11-13 and 45-50
- J. Sbierski, On the Existence of a Maximal Cauchy Development for the Einstein Equations - a Dezornification, arXiv:1309.7591v3 (2015): Lemma 3.1 with proof (an isometric immersion of a connected Lorentzian manifold is determined by its value and differential at one point) and Corollary 3.2 with proof, printed pp. 12-13
- P. T. Chrusciel, Elements of causality theory, arXiv:1110.6706 (2011): normal neighbourhoods and convexity, Proposition 2.2.6 and Definition 2.2.7, printed pp. 10-13
- E. Minguzzi, Lorentzian causality theory, Living Reviews in Relativity 22 (2019), article 3: normal neighbourhoods, the position vector and Gauss' lemma, Definition 2.3 and Theorems 2.4-2.6 printed pp. 26-27
- J. Sbierski, On the Existence of a Maximal Cauchy Development for the Einstein Equations - a Dezornification, arXiv:1309.7591v3 (2015): Lemma 3.3 with proof (an isometric immersion whose restriction to the Cauchy surface is a diffeomorphism is an isometric embedding) and the remark following it, printed pp. 13-14
- E. Minguzzi, Lorentzian causality theory, Living Reviews in Relativity 22 (2019), article 3: maximal geodesics and the exponential map, Theorems 2.4-2.6 printed pp. 26-27
- J. Sbierski, On the Existence of a Maximal Cauchy Development for the Einstein Equations - a Dezornification, arXiv:1309.7591v3 (2015): Theorem 3.4 with proof (the union of all common globally hyperbolic developments is the maximal common development), printed p. 14
- P. T. Chrusciel, Elements of causality theory, arXiv:1110.6706 (2011): Cauchy hypersurfaces, domains of dependence and global hyperbolicity of domains, Theorem 2.9.9 printed pp. 46-50
- J. Sbierski, On the Existence of a Maximal Cauchy Development for the Einstein Equations - a Dezornification, arXiv:1309.7591v3 (2015): Proposition 3.7 with full proof (equivalent characterisations of corresponding boundary points, uniqueness), including the achronality argument in the proof of Lemma 3.9, printed pp. 15-17
- E. Minguzzi, Lorentzian causality theory, Living Reviews in Relativity 22 (2019), article 3: open and closed causal relations, Propositions 2.4, 2.5 and Theorem 4.12 printed pp. 26 and 118
- P. T. Chrusciel, Elements of causality theory, arXiv:1110.6706 (2011): openness of chronology and closedness of the causal relation on globally hyperbolic space-times, Theorem 2.8.5 and section 2.8 printed pp. 42-44
- J. Sbierski, On the Existence of a Maximal Cauchy Development for the Einstein Equations - a Dezornification, arXiv:1309.7591v3 (2015): Lemma 3.8 with full proof (the set C of boundary points with a corresponding point is open in the boundary and psi extends smoothly over U union C), printed pp. 16-17
- J. Sbierski, On the Existence of a Maximal Cauchy Development for the Einstein Equations - a Dezornification, arXiv:1309.7591v3 (2015): the compactness of the past of a point intersected with the future of the initial surface, used in the proof of Lemma 3.11, printed p. 18
- P. T. Chrusciel, Elements of causality theory, arXiv:1110.6706 (2011): Theorem 2.8.5 and its corollaries on closedness of the causal relation and compactness of truncated causal cones, printed pp. 42-44
- E. Minguzzi, Lorentzian causality theory, Living Reviews in Relativity 22 (2019), article 3: limit curve theorems, Theorem 2.80 and Theorem 4.119 printed pp. 58 and 146-147
- J. Sbierski, On the Existence of a Maximal Cauchy Development for the Einstein Equations - a Dezornification, arXiv:1309.7591v3 (2015): Lemma 3.9, printed pp. 17-18: continuation of the corresponding boundary null geodesic (the detailed speed estimate and ODE continuation are supplied locally)
- E. Minguzzi, Lorentzian causality theory, Living Reviews in Relativity 22 (2019), article 3: maximal geodesics and the geodesic equation in charts, Theorems 2.4 and 2.6 printed pp. 26-27
- J. Sbierski, On the Existence of a Maximal Cauchy Development for the Einstein Equations - a Dezornification, arXiv:1309.7591v3 (2015): Lemma 3.9 with full proof (existence of an exposed boundary point satisfying J^-(p) cap boundary U cap J^+(iota(M)) = {p}), printed pp. 17-18
- E. Minguzzi, Lorentzian causality theory, Living Reviews in Relativity 22 (2019), article 3: the fundamental proposition on causal versus timelike curves (timelike perturbation of null segments with corners), Proposition 2.27 and the discussion in section 2.15, printed pp. 44-46 and 62-66
- P. T. Chrusciel, Elements of causality theory, arXiv:1110.6706 (2011): Theorem 2.9.9 and the causal convexity of elementary regions, printed pp. 46-50
- J. Sbierski, On the Existence of a Maximal Cauchy Development for the Einstein Equations - a Dezornification, arXiv:1309.7591v3 (2015): Lemma 3.11 with full proof, printed p. 18
- P. T. Chrusciel, Elements of causality theory, arXiv:1110.6706 (2011): closedness of the causal relation and compactness of truncated cones on globally hyperbolic space-times, Theorem 2.8.5 printed pp. 42-44
- J. Sbierski, On the Existence of a Maximal Cauchy Development for the Einstein Equations - a Dezornification, arXiv:1309.7591v3 (2015): the time separation tau_q and the radial formula (3.12) in the proof of Theorem 3.6, printed pp. 18-19
- E. Minguzzi, Lorentzian causality theory, Living Reviews in Relativity 22 (2019), article 3: continuous time separation and existence of maximizing geodesics, Theorems 2.37, 2.41 and 4.13 printed pp. 41-44 and 118
- P. T. Chrusciel, Elements of causality theory, arXiv:1110.6706 (2011): maximising geodesics and the time separation on globally hyperbolic space-times, sections 2.7-2.8 printed pp. 40-44
- J. Sbierski, On the Existence of a Maximal Cauchy Development for the Einstein Equations - a Dezornification, arXiv:1309.7591v3 (2015): the construction of the spacelike surface S = tau_q^{-1}(tau_0) cap W cap I^+(iota(M)), the radial formula (3.12) and the past collar in the proof of Theorem 3.6, printed pp. 18-19
- E. Minguzzi, Lorentzian causality theory, Living Reviews in Relativity 22 (2019), article 3: continuous time separation, the Gauss lemma and causal convexity, Theorems 2.6, 2.37, 2.41, Proposition 2.43 printed pp. 27, 41-44 and 97-99
- E. Minguzzi, Lorentzian causality theory, Living Reviews in Relativity 22 (2019), article 3: Definition 3.1 and Remark 3.2 (domains of dependence for causal and timelike curves), Proposition 3.10 and its proof (closedness of the timelike domains and equality with the closures of the causal domains for closed S; overbars must be retained), Lemma 3.8 (S equals D+ cap D- for achronal S), Corollary 3.36 and Proposition 3.43 (openness and causal convexity of the domain of dependence of a partial Cauchy hypersurface), Definitions 2.130-2.132 and Corollary 2.145 (edge and causal convexity of an acausal edgeless set), printed pp. 76, 84-98
- P. T. Chrusciel, Elements of causality theory, arXiv:1110.6706 (2011): domains of dependence of achronal hypersurfaces, Corollary 2.9.8 with the transversality remark, Theorem 2.9.9 and Lemma 2.9.11, printed pp. 45-50
- J. Sbierski, On the Existence of a Maximal Cauchy Development for the Einstein Equations - a Dezornification, arXiv:1309.7591v3, Lemmas 3.9/3.11 and Theorem 3.6: geometric exposure and restart mechanism; the past-side construction keeping the fixed matter model and original time orientation is developed explicitly here.
- J. Sbierski, On the Existence of a Maximal Cauchy Development for the Einstein Equations - a Dezornification, arXiv:1309.7591v3 (2015): Theorem 3.6 with full proof and Theorem 3.13, printed pp. 15 and 18-20
- Y. Choquet-Bruhat and R. Geroch, Global aspects of the Cauchy problem in general relativity, Communications in Mathematical Physics 14 (1969), 329-335: the spacelike-slice argument for Hausdorffness of the glued development
- E. Minguzzi, Lorentzian causality theory, Living Reviews in Relativity 22 (2019), article 3: domains of dependence and causal convexity, Corollary 3.36 and Propositions 3.42-3.43 printed pp. 84-99
- J. Sbierski, On the Existence of a Maximal Cauchy Development for the Einstein Equations - a Dezornification, arXiv:1309.7591v3 (2015): the assertion in the proof of Theorem 2.8 that the intersection U_{alpha_i alpha_k} intersected with the preimage of U_{alpha_k alpha_l} is a common globally hyperbolic development, printed p. 22
- E. Minguzzi, Lorentzian causality theory, Living Reviews in Relativity 22 (2019), article 3: causal convexity and domains of dependence, Proposition 2.18 (no imprisoned inextendible curve), Proposition 3.43 and Corollary 3.36, printed pp. 34 and 97-99
- P. T. Chrusciel, Elements of causality theory, arXiv:1110.6706 (2011): globally hyperbolic domains, Theorem 2.9.9 and its proof, printed pp. 46-50
- J. Sbierski, On the Existence of a Maximal Cauchy Development for the Einstein Equations - a Dezornification, arXiv:1309.7591v3 (2015): the proof of Theorem 2.7, points 1-5 (openness of the quotient maps, Hausdorffness via Theorem 3.13, the smooth atlas, the metric, the Cauchy property and the time orientation), printed pp. 20-22
- Y. Choquet-Bruhat and R. Geroch, Global aspects of the Cauchy problem in general relativity, Communications in Mathematical Physics 14 (1969), 329-335: the gluing of two developments along a common one and the resulting global hyperbolicity
- P. T. Chrusciel, Elements of causality theory, arXiv:1110.6706 (2011): quotients of causal spaces and embeddings of globally hyperbolic domains, Theorem 2.9.9 and Lemma 2.9.11, printed pp. 46-50
- J. Sbierski, On the Existence of a Maximal Cauchy Development for the Einstein Equations - a Dezornification, arXiv:1309.7591v3 (2015): the proof of Theorem 2.8 (the set X of developments over Sigma x R, the quotient by identifications along maximal common developments, transitivity, Hausdorffness, the Cauchy property, and the embedding of an arbitrary development via a globally timelike flow), printed pp. 22-24
- Y. Choquet-Bruhat and R. Geroch, Global aspects of the Cauchy problem in general relativity, Communications in Mathematical Physics 14 (1969), 329-335: the set-sized gluing construction of the maximal development
- P. T. Chrusciel, Elements of causality theory, arXiv:1110.6706 (2011): Cauchy hypersurfaces, domains of dependence and globally hyperbolic domains, Theorem 2.9.9, printed pp. 46-50
- J. Sbierski, On the Existence of a Maximal Cauchy Development for the Einstein Equations - a Dezornification, arXiv:1309.7591v3 (2015): the proof of Theorem 2.8, where the author instead invokes a theorem of Geroch (Spinor Structure of Space-Times in General Relativity I, J. Math. Phys. 9 (1968) 1739-1744) for the second countability of the glued quotient, printed pp. 22-23
- R. P. Geroch, Spinor structure of space-times in general relativity I, Journal of Mathematical Physics 9 (1968), 1739-1744: connected, Hausdorff, locally Euclidean manifolds with a smooth Lorentzian metric are second countable (the theorem used by the source and replaced here by an explicit construction)
- E. Minguzzi, Lorentzian causality theory, Living Reviews in Relativity 22 (2019), article 3: the exponential map and convex normal neighbourhoods, Theorems 2.4-2.6 and Proposition 2.18, printed pp. 26-27 and 34
- J. Sbierski, On the Existence of a Maximal Cauchy Development for the Einstein Equations - a Dezornification, arXiv:1309.7591v3 (2015): the second countability step in the proof of Theorem 2.8, printed pp. 22-23 (the source invokes Geroch's theorem; here the countability is obtained from the explicit dense set and exponential charts)
- D. H. Fremlin, Measure Theory, Volume 2, Chapter 4A: second countability, bases and countability of subfamilies (background for the basis argument)
- E. Minguzzi, Lorentzian causality theory, Living Reviews in Relativity 22 (2019), article 3: normal neighbourhoods and the exponential map, Theorems 2.4-2.6, printed pp. 26-27
- J. Sbierski, On the Existence of a Maximal Cauchy Development for the Einstein Equations - a Dezornification, arXiv:1309.7591v3 (2015): Theorems 2.7 and 2.8 with their proofs, printed pp. 12 and 20-24
- Y. Choquet-Bruhat and R. Geroch, Global aspects of the Cauchy problem in general relativity, Communications in Mathematical Physics 14 (1969), 329-335: the original existence and uniqueness theorem for the maximal globally hyperbolic development
- H. Ringstrom, On the Topology and Future Stability of the Universe, Oxford University Press 2013: the Cauchy problem and geometric uniqueness, Chapter 8 (background)
- J. Sbierski, On the Existence of a Maximal Cauchy Development for the Einstein Equations - a Dezornification, arXiv:1309.7591v3 (2015): Theorems 2.7 and 2.8 (the existence and uniqueness of the maximal globally hyperbolic development of given initial data), printed pp. 12 and 20-24
- Y. Choquet-Bruhat and R. Geroch, Global aspects of the Cauchy problem in general relativity, Communications in Mathematical Physics 14 (1969), 329-335
- H. Ringstrom, On the Topology and Future Stability of the Universe, Oxford University Press 2013: the Cauchy problem, geometric uniqueness and the role of the initial data, Chapter 8
- J. Sbierski, On the Existence of a Maximal Cauchy Development for the Einstein Equations - a Dezornification, arXiv:1309.7591v3 (2015): Theorem 2.8 and the surrounding discussion of extensions and isometry classes, printed pp. 12 and 20-24
- Y. Choquet-Bruhat and R. Geroch, Global aspects of the Cauchy problem in general relativity, Communications in Mathematical Physics 14 (1969), 329-335: the original statement of maximality and uniqueness in the vacuum case