Which spacetimes admit conformal compactifications?

2014/09/29 by Olaf Müller, Müller, Olaf
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1409.8136

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arxiv created 2014/11/21 · arxiv updated 2014/11/25

Abstract

We consider the future causal boundary as a tool to find obstructions to conformal extensions, the latter being a slight generalization to conformal compactifications.

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