arXiv Open Access 2020

Determinism and general relativity

Chris Smeenk Christian Wuthrich

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We investigate the fate of determinism in general relativity (GR), comparing the philosopher's account with the physicist's well-posed initial value formulations. The fate of determinism is interwoven with the question of what it is for a spacetime to be `physically reasonable'. A central concern is the status of global hyperbolicity, a putatively necessary condition for determinism in GR. While global hyperbolicity may fail to be true of all physically reasonable models, we analyze whether global hyperbolicity should be (i) imposed by fiat; (ii) established from weaker assumptions, as in cosmic censorship theorems; or (iii) justified by beyond-GR physics.

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physics.hist-ph gr-qc

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Chris Smeenk

Christian Wuthrich

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Smeenk, C., Wuthrich, C. (2020). Determinism and general relativity. https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.07555

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Tahun Terbit: 2020
Bahasa: en
Sumber Database: arXiv
Akses: Open Access ✓