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Minkowski space is the local model of 3 dimensionnal flat spacetimes. Recent progress in the description of globally hyperbolic flat spacetimes showed strong link between Lorentzian geometry and Teichm{\"u}ller space. We notice that…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-05-19 Léo Brunswic

It is shown that a spacetime with collisionless matter evolving from data on a compact Cauchy surface with hyperbolic symmetry can be globally covered by compact hypersurfaces on which the mean curvature is constant and by compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Hakan Andreasson , Gerhard Rein , Alan D. Rendall

We equip the space of Cauchy hypersurfaces in a globally hyperbolic spacetime with a natural Hausdorff-type metric and study its properties, in particular completeness and local compactness, for Lorentzian manifolds and in more general…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Christian Lange , Jonas W. Peteranderl

We consider wave equations on Lorentzian manifolds in case of low regularity. We first extend the classical solution theory to prove global unique solvability of the Cauchy problem for distributional data and right hand side on smooth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-07 Guenther Hoermann , Michael Kunzinger , Roland Steinbauer

We develop causality theory for upper semi-continuous distributions of cones over manifolds generalizing results from mathematical relativity in two directions: non-round cones and non-regular differentiability assumptions. We prove the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-06 E. Minguzzi

In this work we provide the full description of the upper levels of the classical causal ladder for spacetimes in the context of Lorenztian length spaces, thus establishing the hierarchy between them. We also show that global hyperbolicity,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-16 L. Ake Hau , Armando J. Cabrera Pacheco , Didier A. Solis

The maximal analytic Schwarzschild spacetime is manifestly inextendible as a Lorentzian manifold with a twice continuously differentiable metric. In this paper, we prove the stronger statement that it is even inextendible as a Lorentzian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-26 Jan Sbierski

The purpose of this article is to present a result on the existence of Cauchy temporal functions invariant by the action of a compact group of conformal transformations in arbitrary globally hyperbolic manifolds. Moreover, the previous…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-19 Olaf Müller

In [8] Gerhardt proves longtime existence for the inverse mean curvature flow in globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds with compact Cauchy hypersurface, which satisfy three main structural assumptions: a strong volume decay condition, a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-11-22 Heiko Kröner

The global characteristic initial value problem for linear wave equations on globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds is examined, for a class of smooth initial value hypersurfaces satisfying favourable global properties. First it is shown…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-05-01 Umberto Lupo

Geroch's theorem about the splitting of globally hyperbolic spacetimes is a central result in global Lorentzian Geometry. Nevertheless, this result was obtained at a topological level, and the possibility to obtain a metric (or, at least,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Antonio N. Bernal , Miguel Sánchez

This paper gives a new proof that maximal, globally hyperbolic, flat spacetimes of dimension $n\geq 3$ with compact Cauchy hypersurfaces are globally foliated by Cauchy hypersurfaces of constant mean curvature, and that such spacetimes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lars Andersson , Thierry Barbot , Francois Beguin , Abdelghani Zeghib

Supersymmetric solutions of supergravity theories, and consequently metrics with special holonomy, have played an important role in the development of string theory. We describe how a Lorentzian manifold is either completely reducible, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 J Brannlund , A Coley , S Hervik

In this work we establish a version of the Bartnik Splitting Conjecture in the context of Lorentzian length spaces. In precise terms, we show that under an appropriate timelike completeness condition, a globally hyperbolic Lorentzian length…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-13 José Luis Flores , Jónatan Herrera , Didier A. Solis

It is shown that the space of null geodesics of a causally simple Lorentzian manifold is Hausdorff if it admits an open conformal embedding into a globally hyperbolic spacetime. This provides an obstruction to conformal embeddings of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-20 Jakob Hedicke , Stefan Suhr

The intention of this article is to give a flavour of some global problems in General Relativity. We cover a variety of topics, some of them related to the fundamental concept of 'Cauchy hypersurfaces': (1) structure of globally hyperbolic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-21 Olaf Müller , Miguel Sánchez

In order to apply variational methods to the action functional for geodesics of a stationary spacetime, some hypotheses, useful to obtain classical Palais-Smale condition, are commonly used: pseudo-coercivity, bounds on certain coefficients…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-18 Anna Maria Candela , Jose' Luis Flores , Miguel Sanchez

We construct stationary flat three-dimensional Lorentzian manifolds with singularities that are obtained from Euclidean surfaces with cone singularities and closed one-forms on these surfaces. In the application to (2+1)-gravity, these…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-03-20 Thierry Barbot , Catherine Meusburger

We consider (flat) Cauchy-complete GH spacetimes, i.e., globally hyperbolic flat lorentzian manifolds admitting some Cauchy hypersurface on which the ambient lorentzian metric restricts as a complete riemannian metric. We define a family of…

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