id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ia5ol3mnnrepnoxogverxhr2ze Juliusz Doboszewski Relativistic spacetimes and definitions of determinism 2019 14 .pdf application/pdf 7399 522 56 I discuss candidates for definitions of determinism in the context of general relativistic spacetimes, and argue that a definition which does not make recourse to any sense that it makes crucial use of the notion of "moment of time" — which is a particular sort of spacetime region. the paragraph), then that spacetime is globally hyperbolic; so if having a Cauchy surface is necessary to ask a question about determinism, this seems to rule in favour of These worries are specific to general relativity: connection between determinism and predictability in classical physics seems to be very tight (see Schmidt The very formulation of Laplacian determinism makes sense only under the assumption that certain physical structure is present. general relativity non-intrinsic states, such as maximal spatiotemporal regions satisfying certain conditions (such as being determined by the initial data) not only ./cache/work_ia5ol3mnnrepnoxogverxhr2ze.pdf ./txt/work_ia5ol3mnnrepnoxogverxhr2ze.txt