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Eric Larsson

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Broken causal lens rigidity and sky shadow rigidity of Lorentzian manifolds

We prove that the topology, smooth structure, and metric of a compact Lorentzian manifold with boundary is uniquely determined by data at the boundary. The data consists of the lengths and directions of future-directed once-broken geodesics connecting points on the boundary, which are first timelike and then lightlike. This requires the strong causality condition and a weak convexity assumption, but it holds without any assumptions about conjugate points. With an additional convexity assumption we prove the analogous statement for future-directed once-broken timelike geodesics. If there are no conjugate points and lightlike geodesics never refocus, the analogous data using lightlike geodesics and once-broken lightlike geodesics may be used to reconstruct the manifold up to a conformal factor. This is a corollary of a result which shows that the conformal class is determined by the collection of sets of future-directed lightlike vectors at the boundary which give geodesics which all intersect in a single point.

math.DG

Outermost apparent horizons diffeomorphic to unit normal bundles

Given a submanifold $S \subset \mathbb R^n$ of codimension at least three, we construct an asymptotically Euclidean Riemannian metric on $\mathbb R^n$ with nonnegative scalar curvature for which the outermost apparent horizon is diffeomorphic to the unit normal bundle of $S$.

math.DG

Generic metrics satisfy the generic condition

We prove that the "generic condition" used in singularity theorems of general relativity is generic in the space of Lorentzian metrics on a given manifold, in the sense that it is satisfied for all metrics in a residual set in the Whitney $C^k$-topology, for $k$ depending on the dimension of the manifold.

math.DG

Smoothness of compact horizons

We prove that compact Cauchy horizons in a smooth spacetime satisfying the null energy condition are smooth. As an application, we consider the problem of determining when a cobordism admits Lorentzian metrics with certain properties. In particular, we prove a result originally due to Tipler without the smoothness hypothesis necessary in the original proof.

gr-qc