{ "id": "math/0604265", "version": "v2", "published": "2006-04-12T01:23:25.000Z", "updated": "2014-01-19T18:42:56.000Z", "title": "An Invitation to Lorentzian Geometry", "authors": [ "Olaf Müller", "Miguel Sánchez" ], "comment": "This new version extends and updates widely the previous one, with new topics and around the the double of pages and references. 34 pages, Latex", "journal": "Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung (2013): 1-31", "categories": [ "math.DG", "gr-qc" ], "abstract": "The intention of this article is to give a flavour of some global problems in General Relativity. We cover a variety of topics, some of them related to the fundamental concept of 'Cauchy hypersurfaces': (1) structure of globally hyperbolic spacetimes, (2) the relativistic initial value problem, (3) constant mean curvature surfaces, (4) singularity theorems, (5) cosmic censorship and Penrose inequality, (6) spinors and holonomy.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2014-01-19T18:42:56.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "53C50" ], "keywords": [ "lorentzian geometry", "invitation", "constant mean curvature surfaces", "relativistic initial value problem", "general relativity" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "LaTeX", "pages": 34, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "inspire": 714530, "adsabs": "2006math......4265M" } } }