New Examples of Translating Solitons in Generalised Robertson-Walker Geometries
Differential Geometry
2026-01-23 v2
Abstract
Translators can be regarded as submanifolds which satisfy the mean curvature flow equation when evolving by translations along a distinguished vector field of the ambient space. We study translators in Generalised Robertson-Walker spacetimes, due to their importance as Lorentzian manifolds, and because they admit a natural conformal Killing timelike vector field carrying substantial geometric information, which will play the role of this translating vector field. We identify three one-parameter families of warping functions for which these objects exist. As a first example of this notion of translator, we classify the analogues of the classical Grim Reapers within this context.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2211.14529,
title = {New Examples of Translating Solitons in Generalised Robertson-Walker Geometries},
author = {Diego Artacho and Marie-Amélie Lawn and Miguel Ortega},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.14529},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
27 pages. To appear in the Asian Journal of Mathematics