Volume Comparison with Integral Bounds in Lorentz Manifolds
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Ten years ago, Ehrlich and Sanchez produced a pointwise statement of the classical Bishop volume comparison theorem for so-called SCLV subsets of the causal future in a Lorentz manifold, while Petersen and Wei developed and proved an integral version for Riemannian manifolds. We apply Peterson and Wei's method to the SCLV sets, and verify that two essential differential equations from the Riemannian proof extend to the Lorentz setting. As a result, we obtain a volume comparison theorem for Lorentz manifolds with integral, rather than pointwise, bounds. We also brie y discuss the history of the problem, starting with Bishop's original theorem from 1963.
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