A NOTE ON THE LORENTZIAN LIMIT CURVE THEOREM

Abstract

In this paper, we extend the familiar limit curve theorem in [2] to a situation where each causal curve lies in a sequence of compact interpolating spacetimes converging to a limit Lorentz space in the sense of Lorentzian Gromov-Hausdorff distance.

Keywords

• limit curve theorem;
• Lorentzian Gromov-Hausdorff distance

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