Skip to main content

All Questions

Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
2 votes
1 answer
417 views

Euler characteristic of Cauchy surface in Lorentz manifold

Are there any known topological restrictions on what kinds of manifolds can form the Cauchy hypersurface of a Lorentzian manifold? I'm particularly interested about restrictions on Euler ...
David Hillman's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
264 views

manifolds whose charts are maps to Minkowski space

I'm doing a project involving tilings of Minkowski space. For instance in 2d I have rectangular tiles determined by a spacelike line segment: the rectangle is the region caused by the line segment. ...
David Hillman's user avatar