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四维面积度量时空的因果结构和代数分类

Causal structure and algebraic classification of area metric spacetimes in four dimensions

Frederic P. Schuller, Christof Witte, Mattias N. R. Wohlfarth

摘要:

面积度量流形是四维辛几何和度量几何的细化,在许多物理感兴趣的情况下,它们作为有效的物质背景。在这篇文章中,这促使我们首先确定那些有资格作为可行时空背景的面积度量流形,只要它们支持因果传播的物质。这包括一个识别的类时未来锥和他们的面积度量几何学相关联,从而铺平了地面的讨论相关的本地和全球的因果结构的标准方式。为了给面积度量流形提供一致的时空结构的简单代数判据,我们发展了一个完整的面积度量张量代数分类,直到标架的一般变换.值得注意的是,这种分类的一个适当的粗化允许证明一个定理,排除了大多数代数类的面积度量作为可行的时空。

英文摘要:

Area metric manifolds emerge as a refinement of symplectic and metric geometry in four dimensions, where in numerous situations of physical interest they feature as effective matter backgrounds. In this article, this prompts us to identify those area metric manifolds that qualify as viable spacetime backgrounds in the first place, in so far as they support causally propagating matter. This includes an identification of the timelike future cones and their duals associated to an area metric geometry, and thus paves the ground for a discussion of the related local and global causal structure in standard fashion. In order to provide simple algebraic criteria for an area metric manifold to present a consistent spacetime structure, we develop a complete algebraic classification of area metric tensors up to general transformations of frame. Remarkably, a suitable coarsening of this classification allows to prove a theorem excluding the majority of algebraic classes of area metrics as viable spacetimes.

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