On the Curvature and Topology of Compact Stationary Spacetimes

2025/02/01 by Aazami, Amir Babak
#Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2502.00541

Abstract

Using the result of Petersen & Wink '21, we find obstructions to the curvature and topology of compact Lorentzian manifolds admitting a unit-length timelike Killing vector field.

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