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We define a new type of wavelet frame adapted to the study of wave equations, that we call Minkowski curvelets, by reference to the curvelets introduced by Cand\`es, Demanet and Donoho. These space-time, strongly anisotropic, directional…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-10-29 Jeremie Unterberger

We consider convex, spacelike hypersurfaces with boundaries on some hyperboloid (or lightcone) in the Minkowski space. If the hypersurface has constant higher order mean curvature, and the angle between the normal vectors of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Shanze Gao

The refraction of light by dispersion-free dielectric media can be modeled using well-localized macroscopic wave packets, enabling a description in terms of pseudo-particles. This approach is often used in thought experiments to illustrate…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-03-07 R. Dengler

Lie-type deformations provide a systematic way of generalising the symmetries of modern physics. Deforming the isometry group of Minkowski spacetime through the introduction of a minimal length scale $\ell$ leads to anti de Sitter spacetime…

General Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 Niels G. Gresnigt , Adam B. Gillard

In this article, we estimate the quasi-local energy with reference to the Minkowski spacetime [16,17], the anti-de Sitter spacetime [4], or the Schwarzschild spacetime [3]. In each case, the reference spacetime admits a conformal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-27 Po-Ning Chen , Mu-Tao Wang , Shing-Tung Yau

In a general Lorentzian manifold M, the past lightcone of a point is a proper subset of M that does not carry enough information to determine the rest of M. That said, if M is a globally hyperbolic Cauchy development of vacuum initial data…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-09 Martin Lesourd

Some well-known Lorentzian concepts are transferred into the more general setting of cone structures, which provide both the causality of the spacetime and the notion of cone geodesics without making use of any metric. Lightlike…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Miguel Ángel Javaloyes , Enrique Pendás-Recondo

We study codimension two spacelike submanifolds contained into a general class of null hypersurfaces in generalized Robertson-Walker spacetimes, refer to as nullcones. In particular we analyze light cones and lightlike cylinders in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Luis J. Alias , Josue Melendez , Matias Navarro , Didier A. Solis

We present a novel theorem regarding light rings in a stationary spacetime with an ergoregion. We prove that any stationary, axisymmetric, and asymptotically flat spacetime in 1 + 3 dimensions with an ergoregion must have at least one light…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-11 Rajes Ghosh , Sudipta Sarkar

A nonempty closed convex set in ${\mathbb R}^n$, not containing the origin, is called a pseudo-cone if with every $x$ it also contains $\lambda x$ for $x\ge 1$. We consider pseudo-cones with a given recession cone $C$, called…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-29 Rolf Schneider

We show that free $\kappa$-Minkowski space field theory is equivalent to a relativistically invariant, non local, free field theory on Minkowski space-time. The field theory we obtain has in spectrum a relativistic mode of arbitrary mass…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Laurent Freidel , Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman , Sebastian Nowak

Cosmological observables are used to construct cosmological models. Since cosmological observations are limited to the light cone, a fixed number of observables (even measured to arbitrary accuracy) may not uniquely determine a cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-20 Edward W. Kolb , Callum R. Lamb

We study light-front physics and conformal symmetry, and their interplay both on and off the light cone. The full symmetry of the light cone is conformal symmetry not just Lorentz symmetry. Spontaneously breaking conformal symmetry gives…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-31 Philip D. Mannheim

Let Y be a locally convex Hausdorff space, K \subset E a cone and \leq_K the partial order defined by K. Let (X, p) be a TV S- cone metric space, {\phi} : K \rightarrow K a vectorial comparison function and f : X \rightarrow X such that…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2011-11-15 Ion Olaru

Light cone form of field dynamics in anti-de Sitter spacetime is described. We also present light cone reformulation of the boundary conformal field theory representations. AdS/CFT correspondence between the bulk fields and the boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 R. R. Metsaev

Any 2-dim Riemannian manifold with spherical topology can be embedded isometrically into a lightcone of the Minkowski spacetime. We apply this fact to give a proof of the Kazdan-Warner identity.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-08 Pengyu Le

Minkowski space is a physically important space-time for which the finding an adequate holographic description is an urgent problem. In this paper we develop further the proposal made in hep-th/0303006 for the description as a duality…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 Sergey N. Solodukhin

We develop a quantization scheme for the quantum theory of a real scalar field on a class of non-commutative spacetime models collectively known as T-Minkowski. Requiring the theory to be covariant under T-Poincar\'e transformations, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-07 Giuseppe Fabiano , Flavio Mercati

We study lightlikeness preserving mappings from the $4$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime $\mathcal{M}_4$ to itself under no additional regularity assumptions like continuity, surjectivity, or injectivity. We prove that such a mapping $\phi$…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Michiya Mori , Peter Šemrl

In this paper, by constructing area-nonincreasing retractions, we prove area-minimizing properties of some cones over minimal embeddings of R-spaces.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-09 Shinji Ohno , Takashi Sakai