13–17 Jul 2026
Chemistry Building
Europe/London timezone

Convergence of Lorentzian spaces and curvature bounds for generalized cones

13 Jul 2026, 09:30
1h
CG93 (Chemistry Building)

CG93

Chemistry Building

Durham University Lower Mountjoy Stockton Road Durham University DH1 3LE

Speaker

Christian Ketterer (Maynooth)

Description

In this talk I will introduce a notion of convergence for Lorentzian prelength spaces called $\ell$-convergence. I present a theorem showing that timelike curvature and curvature-dimension bounds are preserved under $\ell$-convergence of Lorentzian geodesic spaces. Then, I use $\ell$-convergence to study generalized cones, and I show timelike curvature and curvature-dimension bounds. The assumptions are sharp and don't require smoothness. Finally, there is an $\ell$-pre-compactness theorem for the class of smooth generalized cones with a uniform lower bound on the full Ricci tensor.

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