On the causal discontinuity of Morse spacetimes

Abstract

Morse spacetime is a model of singular Lorentzian manifold, built upon a Morse function which serves as a global time function out-side its critical points. The Borde–Sorkin conjecture states that a Morse spacetime is causally continuous if and only if the index and coindex of critical points of the corresponding Morse function are both different from 1. The conjecture has recently been confirmed by García-Heveling for the case of small anisotropy and Euclidean background metric. Here, we provide a complementary counterex-ample: a four dimensional Morse spacetime whose critical point has index 2 and large enough anisotropy is causally discontinuous and thus the Borde–Sorkin conjecture does not hold. The proof features a low regularity causal structure and causal bubbling.