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Recently, Lorentzian length spaces have been introduced inspired by length spaces. One of the main objects of study in these spaces is a time separation function \(\tau \), which is closely linked to their causal structure. In analogy to the metric d in length spaces, \(\tau \) can express basic notions and many results in the setting of Lorentzian length spaces. In this paper, the concept of conformal Lorentzian length spaces is introduced and a novel version of limit curve theorem is proven. Finally, the global hyperbolic and causally simple Lorentzian length spaces are characterized.
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Ebrahimi, N., Vatandoost, M. & Pourkhandani, R. On conformal Lorentzian length spaces. Anal.Math.Phys. 13, 93 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13324-023-00855-1
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