Timelike conjugate points in Lorentzian length spaces
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| author | Grant, James D. E. Kunzinger, Michael Ohanyan, Argam Schinnerl, Yasmin Steinbauer, Roland |
| author_facet | Grant, James D. E. Kunzinger, Michael Ohanyan, Argam Schinnerl, Yasmin Steinbauer, Roland |
| contents | We study notions of conjugate points along timelike geodesics in the synthetic setting of Lorentzian (pre-)length spaces, inspired by earlier work for metric spaces by Shankar--Sormani. After preliminary considerations on convergence of timelike and causal geodesics, we introduce and compare one-sided, symmetric, unreachable and ultimate conjugate points along timelike geodesics. We show that all such notions are compatible with the usual one in the smooth (strongly causal) spacetime setting. As applications, we prove a timelike Rauch comparison theorem, as well as a result closely related to the recently established Lorentzian Cartan--Hadamard theorem by Erös--Gieger. In the appendix, we give a detailed treatment of the Fréchet distance on the space of non-stopping curves up to reparametrization, a technical tool used throughout the paper. |
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| spellingShingle | Timelike conjugate points in Lorentzian length spaces Grant, James D. E. Kunzinger, Michael Ohanyan, Argam Schinnerl, Yasmin Steinbauer, Roland Differential Geometry Metric Geometry 53B30, 53C22, 53C23 We study notions of conjugate points along timelike geodesics in the synthetic setting of Lorentzian (pre-)length spaces, inspired by earlier work for metric spaces by Shankar--Sormani. After preliminary considerations on convergence of timelike and causal geodesics, we introduce and compare one-sided, symmetric, unreachable and ultimate conjugate points along timelike geodesics. We show that all such notions are compatible with the usual one in the smooth (strongly causal) spacetime setting. As applications, we prove a timelike Rauch comparison theorem, as well as a result closely related to the recently established Lorentzian Cartan--Hadamard theorem by Erös--Gieger. In the appendix, we give a detailed treatment of the Fréchet distance on the space of non-stopping curves up to reparametrization, a technical tool used throughout the paper. |
| title | Timelike conjugate points in Lorentzian length spaces |
| topic | Differential Geometry Metric Geometry 53B30, 53C22, 53C23 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12855 |