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Pointwise eventual chronological entry is uniform on compact subsets
Statement
Let be the increasing open chronological pasts in the preceding lemma, and let be any fixed subset of the spacetime. Suppose every belongs to for all sufficiently large , with a threshold allowed to depend on . Then each compact has a finite common threshold for which for every . This is conditional on pointwise entry and supplies no missing accessibility premise.
Statement references
Facts & Assumptions
The pasts are open and increasing in time. Future timelike cylinder translations make their chronological pasts increase Causal exterior, chronological boundaries and Cauchy data
Compact subsets admit finite ambient open subcovers. Open cover, subcover, and compact topological space; a compact subset is a subspace that is compact in its own right A subspace is compact exactly when every family of open subsets of the ambient space covering it, indexed or not, has finitely many members covering it
The real numbers form a totally ordered field: any two real indices are comparable, the order is transitive and compatible with addition, and . The reals form a totally ordered field
Proof
Given: The stated data and explicit hypotheses.
Goal: Establish only the asserted conditional conclusion.
Use the whole real-indexed family . For each , the pointwise eventual-entry hypothesis supplies a real threshold such that for every ; in particular . Hence . Each member is ambient open by [F1], so this is an indexed ambient open cover as in [F2]. If is nonempty, the indexed form of [F2] gives finitely many real indices , with , such that .
If is empty take . Otherwise the finitely many real indices in step 1.1 have a greatest member: start with and compare each subsequent index with the retained member, retaining the larger one at each of the finitely many comparisons. Call the resulting member ; then for all . For every , monotonicity gives when , and equality handles . The finite cover therefore gives . This proves the asserted compact uniformity without strengthening the pointwise hypothesis or using integer cofinality.
Depends on
- Causal exterior, chronological boundaries and Cauchy data
- Open cover, subcover, and compact topological space; a compact subset is a subspace that is compact in its own right
- A subspace is compact exactly when every family of open subsets of the ambient space covering it, indexed or not, has finitely many members covering it
- The reals form a totally ordered field
- Future timelike cylinder translations make their chronological pasts increase
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