Abstract
Chernov–Nemirovski observed that the existence of a globally hyperbolic Lorentzian metric on a -spacetime pins down a smooth structure on the underlying four-manifold. In this paper, we point out that the diffeomorphism type of a globally hyperbolic -spacetime is determined by the h-cobordism class of its Cauchy surface, hence extending Chernov–Nemirovskiʼs observation to arbitrary dimensions.
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