Enveloping space of a globally hyperbolic conformally flat spacetime

Abstract

We prove that any simply-connected globally hyperbolic conformally flat spacetime V can be conformally embedded in a bigger conformally flat spacetime, called enveloping space of V , containing all the conformally flat Cauchy-extensions of V , in particular its C 0-maximal extension. As a result, we establish a new proof of the existence and the uniqueness of the C 0-maximal extension of a globally hyperbolic conformally flat spacetime. Furthermore, this approach allows us to prove that C 0-maximal extensions respect inclusion.