Implications of energy conditions on standard static space-times

Abstract

In the framework of standard static space-times, we state a family of sufficient or necessary conditions for a set of physically reasonable energy and convergence conditions in relativity and related theories. We concentrate our study on questions about the sub-harmonicity of the warping function, the scalar curvature map, conformal hyperbolicity, conjugate points and the time-like diameter of this class of space-times. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.