Limits of spacetimes

1969
14 pages
Published in:
  • Commun.Math.Phys. 13 (1969) 180-193

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Abstract: (Springer)
The limits of a one-parameter family of spacetimes are defined, and the properties of such limits discussed. The definition is applied to an investigation of the Schwarzschild solution as a limit of the Reissner-Nordström solution as the charge parameter goes to zero. Two new techniques — rigidity of a geometrical structure and Killing transport — are introduced. Several applications of these two subjects, both to limits and to certain other questions in differential geometry, are discussed.