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We describe the geometry of geodesics on a Lorentz ellipsoid: give explicit formulas for the first integrals (pseudo-confocal coordinates), curvature, geodesically equivalent Riemannian metric, the invariant area-forms on the time- and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 D. Genin , B. Khesin , S. Tabachnikov

This paper is a continuation of the papers [gr-qc/9409010, gr-qc/9505034]. A revision of the Einstein equation shows that its dynamic incompleteness, contrary to a popular opinion, cannot be circumvented by so-called coordinate conditions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir S. Mashkevich

The famous Hopf-Rinow Theorem states, amongst others, that a Riemannian manifold is metrically complete if and only if it is geodesically complete. The Clifton-Pohl torus fails to be geodesically complete proving that this theorem cannot be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Annegret Burtscher

In the 1980s, M. J. Markowitz introduced a conformally invariant pseudodistance on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds, inspired by the Kobayashi metric in projective geometry. This construction relies on a distinguished class of parametrized…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Adam Chalumeau

An almost Einstein manifold satisfies equations which are a slight weakening of the Einstein equations; Einstein metrics, Poincare-Einstein metrics, and compactifications of certain Ricci-flat asymptotically locally Euclidean structures are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-03-26 A. Rod Gover

A.Einstein considered a linear connection $\nabla$ with torsion $T$ on a smooth manifold equipped with a nonsymmetric (0,2)-tensor $G=g+F$, where $g$ is a pseudo-Riemannian metric associated with gravity, and $F\ne0$ is a skew-symmetric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Vladimir Rovenski , Milan Zlatanović

Reflection in a line in Euclidean 3-space defines an almost paracomplex structure on the space of all oriented lines, isometric with respect to the canonical neutral Kaehler metric. Beyond Euclidean 3-space, the space of oriented geodesics…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Nikos Georgiou , Brendan Guilfoyle

This paper makes a formal study of asymptotically hyperbolic Einstein metrics given, as conformal infinity, a conformal manifold with boundary. The space on which such an Einstein metric exists thus has a finite boundary in addition to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-09 Stephen E. McKeown

We show geodesic completeness of certain compact locally symmetric pseudo-Riemannian manifolds of signature $(2,n)$. Our model space $\mathbf{X}$ is a $1$-connected, indecomposable symmetric space of signature $(2,n)$, that admits a unique…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Malek Hanounah

We discuss smooth metric measure spaces admitting two weighted Einstein representatives of the same weighted conformal class. First, we describe the local geometries of such manifolds in terms of certain Einstein and quasi-Einstein warped…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Miguel Brozos-Vázquez , Eduardo García-Río , Diego Mojón-Álvarez

The null curvature condition (NCC) is the requirement that the Ricci curvature of a Lorentzian manifold be nonnegative along null directions, which ensures the focusing of null geodesic congruences. In this note, we show that the NCC…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-15 Åsmund Folkestad , Sergio Hernández-Cuenca

Given a parabolic geometry, it is sometimes possible to find special metrics characterised by some invariant conditions. In conformal geometry, for example, one asks for an Einstein metric in the conformal class. Einstein metrics have the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-07 Michael Eastwood , Lenka Zalabová

Solutions of Einstein vacuum equations, for a static pseudospherically symmetric system, are presented. They describe a naked singularity and a singular solution with many resemblances to the Schwartzschild solution but with two major…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-25 Luis A. Anchordoqui , Graciela S. Birman , Jose D. Edelstein , Carlos Núñez

In this talk a sufficient condition for a diagonal orthogonally transitive cylindrical $G_2$ metric to be geodesically complete is given. The condition is weak enough to comprise all known diagonal perfect fluid cosmological models that are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-14 L. Fernández-Jambrina

In this article we extend the Gallot-Tanno theorem to closed pseudo-Riemannian manifolds. It is done by showing that if the cone over such a manifold admits a parallel symmetric 2-tensor then it is incomplete and has non zero constant…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-07-13 Pierre Mounoud

Two pseudo-Riemannian metrics are called projectively equivalent if their unparametrized geodesics coincide. The degree of mobility of a metric is the dimension of the space of metrics that are projectively equivalent to it. We give a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-28 Vladimir S. Matveev , Stefan Rosemann

We study locally conformal calibrated $G_2$-structures whose underlying Riemannian metric is Einstein, showing that in the compact case the scalar curvature cannot be positive. As a consequence, a compact homogeneous $7$-manifold cannot…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Anna Fino , Alberto Raffero

In a previous paper, we presented new results on non-Riemannian geometry. For an asymmetric connection, we showed that a projective change in the symmetric part generates a vector field that is not arbitrary, but is the gradient of a…

General Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 A. C. V. V. de Siqueira

The geodesic orbit property is useful and interesting in Riemannian geometry. It implies homogeneity and has important classes of Riemannian manifolds as special cases. Those classes include weakly symmetric Riemannian manifolds and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-25 Yuri Nikolayevsky , Joseph A. Wolf

In this article, we give multiple situations when having one or two geometrically distinct closed geodesics on a complete Riemannian cylinder $M\simeq S^1\times\mathbb{R}$ or a complete Riemannian plane $M\simeq\mathbb{R}^2$ leads to having…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-08 Simon Allais , Tobias Soethe