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Past access to the far tail by exact time reversal
Statement
Under all the hypotheses of the maximal stationary far-tail-access lemma, every point of belongs also to for every sufficiently far stationary tail . Here the metric, domain, slice and end are unchanged. Thus the original-metric chronological access is two-sided. This is not a statement about the Harrison metric with a fixed parameter or about its transferred future paths.
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Facts & Assumptions
The authored future-access lemma applies to any smooth maximal stationary Lorentz product with the exact geometric, positivity, tangency and asymptotic hypotheses stated there. A maximal stationary exterior has future access to its far tail
Chronological past/future and time orientation are those of the causal-curve interface, and the hypersurface conventions define . Causal curves, chronological and causal reachability, and inextendibility Spacelike sections, maximality and lapse–shift data
Proof
**Given:**The explicit hypotheses of the Statement.
Goal: Establish its exact chronological-access conclusion.
Reverse the spacetime time orientation and replace by and its stationary coordinate by . The future unit normal is . Hence with and unchanged positive . The induced metric is unchanged; is still trace-free. Boundary tangency and smooth extension are unchanged, as are the complete stationary flow and product topology. The end components satisfy , , , so all end bounds and future timelikeness of in the reversed orientation hold. The set is the same subset because its time factor is all of . Thus every hypothesis of [F1] is preserved, not merely the maximal-slice condition.
Apply [F1] in this reversed setting. It gives . Reversing a future timelike curve in the reversed orientation gives a future timelike curve in the original orientation from to its original starting point. Therefore this is precisely . Combining it with the original [F1] gives both chronological accesses. No assertion about a deformed metric is used.
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