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In this note we prove certain necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of an embedding of statistical manifolds. In particular, we prove that any compact smooth ($C^1$ resp.) statistical manifold can be embedded into the space…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-11 Hong-Van Le

Starting from a Riemannian conformal structure on a manifold M, we provide a method to construct a family of Lorentzian manifolds. The construction relies on the choice of a metric in the conformal class and a smooth 1-parameter family of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-25 Rodrigo Morón , Francisco J. Palomo

All Lorentzian spacetimes with vanishing invariants constructed from the Riemann tensor and its covariant derivatives are determined. A subclass of the Kundt spacetimes results and we display the corresponding metrics in local coordinates.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 V. Pravda , A. Pravdova , A. Coley , R. Milson

The paper focuses on the conformal Lorentz geometry of quasi-umbilical timelike surfaces in the $(1+2)$-Einstein universe, the conformal compactification of Minkowski 3-space realized as the space of oriented null lines through the origin…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Emilio Musso , Lorenzo Nicolodi , Mason Pember

We give a geometrically intrinsic construction of a global time function for relatively compact diamond-shaped regions in arbitrary spacetimes. In the case of Minkowski spacetime, the flow of diffeomorphisms associated to a suitably…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-26 Pedro Lauridsen Ribeiro

For any compact Lie group $G$ and any $n$ we construct a smooth $G$-manifold $U_n(G)$ such that any smooth $n$-dimensional $G$-manifold can be embedded in $U_n(G)$ with a trivial normal bundle. Furthermore, we show that such embeddings are…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Arthur G. Wasserman

We study Sobolev spaces of radial functions on spherically symmetric Riemannian manifolds. Using geodesic polar coordinates, we give a sharp one-dimensional reduction: a radial function belongs to the Sobolev space on the manifold if and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-17 João Marcos do Ó , Guozhen Lu , Raoní Ponciano

We present in this paper the formalism for the splitting of a four-dimensional Lorentzian manifold by a set of time-like integral curves. Introducing the geometrical tensors characterizing the local spatial frames induced by the congruence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-27 Xavier Roy

A time-flat condition on spacelike 2-surfaces in spacetime is considered here. This condition is analogous to constant torsion condition for curves in three dimensional space and has been studied in [2, 4, 5, 12, 13]. In particular, any…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-22 Po-Ning Chen , Mu-Tao Wang , Ye-Kai Wang

This article suggests the definition of "Lorentzian space" weakening the notion of Lorentzian length spaces just as much that it allows for a functor from the category of strongly causal Lorentzian manifolds to the corresponding category of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Olaf Müller

We show differentiability of a class of Geroch's volume functions on globally hyperbolic manifolds. Furthermore, we prove that every volume function satisfies a local anti-Lipschitz condition over causal curves, and that locally Lipschitz…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-02 Piotr T. Chruściel , James D. E. Grant , Ettore Minguzzi

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

A simple model for the localization of the category $\mathbf{CLoc}_2$ of oriented and time-oriented globally hyperbolic conformal Lorentzian $2$-manifolds at all Cauchy morphisms is constructed. This provides an equivalent description of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Marco Benini , Luca Giorgetti , Alexander Schenkel

Nontrivial isometric embeddings for flat metrics (i.e., those which are not just planes in the ambient space) can serve as useful tools in the description of gravity in the embedding gravity approach. Such embeddings can additionally be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-21 S. A. Paston , T. I. Zaitseva

Under certain conditions, a $(1+1)$-dimensional slice $\hat{g}$ of a spherically symmetric black hole spacetime can be equivariantly embedded in $(2+1)$-dimensional Minkowski space. The embedding depends on a real parameter that corresponds…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 John T. Giblin , Andrew D. Hwang

The paper proposes extensions of the usual notions of Finslerian volume to time orientable Finsler spacetime manifolds. The basic idea is to replace, in the classical Busemann-Hausdorff and Holmes-Thompson definitions, integration on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-30 Nicoleta Voicu

A Riemannian manifold is called harmonic if its volume density function expressed in polar coordinates centered at any point is radial. Flat and rank-one symmetric spaces are harmonic. The converse (the Lichnerowicz Conjecture) is true for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Y. Nikolayevsky

Space-times which allow a slicing into homogeneous spatial hypersurfaces generalize the usual Bianchi models. One knows already that in these models the Bianchi type may change with time. Here we show which of the changes really appear. To…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 M. Rainer , H. -J. Schmidt

We consider a Lorentzian analogue of the Ptolemy inequality and we prove that in the setting of globally hyperbolic spacetimes it is equivalent to a global timelike sectional curvature bound from above by zero. We investigate the link…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Felix Rott , Zhe-Feng Xu , Matteo Zanardini

We considered the most general form of non-static cylindrically symmetric space-times for studying proper curvature symmetry by using the rank of the 6X6 Riemann matrix and direct integration techniques. Studying proper curvature symmetry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-01 Ghulam Shabbir , M. Ramzan