For non-compact spacetimes of dimension at least three, compact causal diamonds alone imply global hyperbolicity, so the causality condition can be dropped from the definition.
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Globally hyperbolic spacetimes can be defined without the 'causal' condition
For non-compact spacetimes of dimension at least three, compact causal diamonds alone imply global hyperbolicity, so the causality condition can be dropped from the definition.