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We study and report on the class of vacuum Maxwell fields in Minkowski space that possess a non-degenerate, diverging, principle null vector field (null eigenvector field of the Maxwell tensor) that is tangent to a shear-free null geodesics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Ezra Newman

We present a version of relative locality based on the geometry of twistor space. This can also be thought of as a new kind of deformation of twistor theory based on the construction of a bundle of twistor spaces over momentum space.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-04 Lee Smolin

Existence and uniqueness in ${\Bbb R}^{n,1}$ of entire spacelike hypersurfaces contained in the future of the origin $O$ and asymptotic to the light-cone, with scalar curvature prescribed at their generic point $M$ as a negative function of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-07-10 Pierre Bayard , Philippe Delanoë

An order four automorphism of a Lie algebra gives rise to an integrable system discussed by Terng. We show that solutions of this system may be identified with certain vertically harmonic twistor lifts of conformal maps of surfaces in a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-03-27 Francis E. Burstall , Idrisse Khemar

The theory of graphons has proven to be a powerful tool in many areas of graph theory. In this paper, we introduce several foundational aspects of the theory of digraphons -- asymmetric two-variable functions that arise as limits of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Jan Hladký , Petr Savický

We develop the basics of twistor theory in de Sitter space, up to the Penrose transform for free massless fields. We treat de Sitter space as fundamental, as one does for Minkowski space in conventional introductions to twistor theory. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-24 Yasha Neiman

We introduce a homotopy theory of digraphs (directed graphs) and prove its basic properties, including the relations to the homology theory of digraphs constructed by the authors in previous papers. In particular, we prove the homotopy…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-07-02 Alexander Grigor'yan , Yong Lin , Yuri Muranov , Shing-Tung Yau

The causal set program as well as the Wolfram physics project leave open the problem of how a graph that is a (3+1)-dimensional Minkowski-spacetime according to its simple geodesic distances, could be generated solely from simple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-07 Gabriel Leuenberger

This paper continues the study of a class of compact convex hypersurfaces in Euclidean space $R^{n+1}, ~n \geq 1$, which are boundaries of compact convex bodies obtained by taking the intersection of (solid) confocal paraboloids of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Oliker

Twistors in four dimensions d=4 have provided a convenient description of massless particles with any spin, and this led to remarkable computational techniques in Yang-Mills field theory. Recently it was shown that the same d=4 twistor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Itzhak Bars , Moises Picon

We discuss chiral zero-rest-mass field equations on six-dimensional space-time from a twistorial point of view. Specifically, we present a detailed cohomological analysis, develop both Penrose and Penrose-Ward transforms, and analyse the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-25 Christian Saemann , Martin Wolf

Twisted diagrams are "diagrams" with components in different categories. Structure maps are defined using auxiliary data which consists of functors relating the various categories to each other. Prime examples of the construction are…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2008-05-28 Thomas Huettemann , Oliver Roendigs

We describe the relationship between complex-valued harmonic morphisms from Minkowski 4-space} and the shear-free ray congruences of mathematical physics. Then we show how a horizontally conformal submersion on a domain of Euclidean 3-space…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 P. Baird , J. C. Wood

We survey Bernstein-type theorems for graphical surfaces in the Euclidean space and the Lorentz-Minkowski space. More specifically, we explain several proofs of the Bernstein theorem for minimal graphs in the Euclidean 3-space. Furthermore,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Yu Kawakami

We propose a new classical theory of gravity which is based on the principle of equivalence and assumption that gravity, similarly to electrodynamics, is described by a vector field in Minkowski space-time. We show that such assumptions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-22 Anatoly A. Svidzinsky

A {\em cyclic graph} is a graph with at each vertex a cyclic order of the edges incident with it specified. We characterize which real-valued functions on the collection of cubic cyclic graphs are partition functions of a real vertex model…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2016-08-02 Guus Regts , Alexander Schrijver , Bart Sevenster

In the minimal surface theory, the Krust theorem asserts that if a minimal surface in the Euclidean 3-space $\mathbb{E}^3$ is the graph of a function over a convex domain, then each surface of its associated family is also a graph. The same…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-06 Shintaro Akamine , Hiroki Fujino

In this thesis we take Einstein theory in dimension four seriously, and explore the special aspects of gravity in this number of dimension. Among the many surprising features in dimension four, one of them is the possibility of `Chiral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-31 Yannick Herfray

This paper is intended to describe twistors via the paravector model of Clifford algebras and to relate such description to conformal maps in the Clifford algebra over R(4,1), besides pointing out some applications of the pure spinor…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roldao da Rocha , Jayme Vaz

Minkowski tensors are comprehensive shape descriptors that robustly capture n-point information in complex random geometries and that have already been extensively applied in the Euclidean plane. Here, we devise a novel framework for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-30 Caroline Collischon , Michael Klatt , Anthony Banday , Manami Sasaki , Christoph Räth