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<p>The null energy or null convergence condition (NEC) is one of the fundamental assumptions necessary for many celebrated results from Lorentzian Geometry and Mathematical General Relativity. As such there have been several recent efforts to find a good generalization of this condition to the new setting of Lorentzian length spaces or metric measure spacetimes. One important property any such generalization should fulfill is consistency with the classical formulation for a class of spacetimes as large as possible. The purpose of this note is to show that the reformulation of the NEC by McCann as variable lower timelike Ricci curvature bounds in [<CitationRef CitationID="CR16">16</CitationRef>] remains equivalent to the classical NEC not just for smooth but even for <InlineEquation ID="IEq3"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">\(C^2\)</EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"><math> <msup> <mi>C</mi> <mn>2</mn> </msup> </math></EquationSource> </InlineEquation>-metrics, where McCann’s original proof needs to be modified.</p>

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Equivalence of the null energy condition to variable lower bounds on the timelike Ricci curvature for \(C^2\)-Lorentzian metrics

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    2026年6月17日

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  • Melanie Graf,
  • Yaver Gulusoy

摘要

The null energy or null convergence condition (NEC) is one of the fundamental assumptions necessary for many celebrated results from Lorentzian Geometry and Mathematical General Relativity. As such there have been several recent efforts to find a good generalization of this condition to the new setting of Lorentzian length spaces or metric measure spacetimes. One important property any such generalization should fulfill is consistency with the classical formulation for a class of spacetimes as large as possible. The purpose of this note is to show that the reformulation of the NEC by McCann as variable lower timelike Ricci curvature bounds in [16] remains equivalent to the classical NEC not just for smooth but even for \(C^2\) C 2 -metrics, where McCann’s original proof needs to be modified.