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The cosmological constant problem is examined under the assumption that the extrinsic curvature of the space-time contributes to the vacuum. A compensation mechanism based on a variable cosmological term is proposed. Under a suitable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-25 M. D. Maia , G. S. Silva

We prove the equivalence of the curvature-dimension bounds of Lott-Sturm-Villani (via entropy and optimal transport) and of Bakry--\'Emery (via energy and \Gamma_2$-calculus) in complete generality for infinitesimally Hilbertian metric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-30 Matthias Erbar , Kazumasa Kuwada , Karl-Theodor Sturm

We establish a uniform estimate for the injectivity radius of the past null cone of a point in a general Lorentzian manifold foliated by spacelike hypersurfaces and satisfying an upper curvature bound. Precisely, our main assumptions are,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-01 James D. E. Grant , Philippe G. LeFloch

We revisit the problem of solving the Einstein constraint equations in vacuum by a new method, which allows us to prescribe four scalar quantities, representing the full dynamical degrees of freedom of the constraint system. We show that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Xuantao Chen , Sergiu Klainerman

Using an approach similar to arXiv:2409.15460, we give a new proof of the nonlinear stability of de Sitter space as a solution to the Einstein vacuum equations with positive cosmological constant in $n+1$ dimensions, with $n\geq3$. Using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Maurus Leimbacher

One of the qualitatively distinct and robust implication of Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) is the underlying discrete structure. In the cosmological context elucidated by Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC), this is manifested by the Hamiltonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Kinjal Banerjee , Ghanashyam Date

We determine bounds on the curvature of local patches of spacetime from the requirement of intact long-range chiral symmetry. The bounds arise from a scale-dependent analysis of gravitational catalysis and its influence on the effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-02 Holger Gies , Riccardo Martini

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

We make use of the metric version of the conformal Einstein field equations to construct anti-de Sitter-like spacetimes by means of a suitably posed initial-boundary value problem. The evolution system associated to this initial-boundary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-19 Diego A. Carranza , Juan A. Valiente Kroon

Let $M\subset\mathbb{R}^3$ be a properly embedded, connected, complete surface with boundary a convex planar curve $C$, satisfying an elliptic equation $H=f(H^2-K)$, where $H$ and $K$ are the mean and the Gauss curvature respectively -…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Angelo Benedetti

In this paper we address two boundary cases of the classical Kazdan-Warner problem. More precisely, we consider the problem of prescribing the Gaussian and boundary geodesic curvature on a disk of R^2, and the scalar and mean curvature on a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Luca Battaglia , Sergio Cruz-Blázquez , Angela Pistoia

We prove the existence of a complete locally Lipschitz continuous hypersurface in weak sense with prescribed Weingarten curvature and asymptotic boundary at infinity in hyperbolic space under certain assumptions.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Zhenan Sui , Wei Sun

Say S is a compact three-manifold with non-positive Yamabe invariant. We prove that in any long time constant mean curvature Einstein flow over S, having bounded C^{\alpha} space-time curvature at the cosmological scale, the reduced volume…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Martin Reiris

We prove curvature-free versions of the celebrated Margulis Lemma. We are interested by both the algebraic aspects and the geometric ones, with however an emphasis on the second and we aim at giving quantitative (computable) estimates of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Gérard Besson , Gilles Courtois , Sylvestre Gallot , Andrea Sambusetti

It is shown that for a wide class of analytic Lagrangians which depend only on the scalar curvature of a metric and a connection, the application of the so--called ``Palatini formalism'', i.e., treating the metric and the connection as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-13 M. Ferraris , M. Francaviglia , I. Volovich

A new Lorentz gauge gravity model with R^2-type Lagrangian is proposed. In the absence of classical torsion the model admits a topological phase with an arbitrary metric. We analyze the equations of motion in constant curvature space-time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Y. M. Cho , D. G. Pak , B. S. Park

We study the Einstein-Yang-Mills system in both the Lorenz and harmonic gauges, where the Yang-Mills fields are valued in any arbitrary Lie algebra $\cal G$, associated to any compact Lie group $G$. This gives a system of hyperbolic partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Sari Ghanem

We construct low regularity solutions of the vacuum Einstein constraint equations. In particular, on 3-manifolds we obtain solutions with metrics in $H^s\loc$ with $s>{3\over 2}$. The theory of maximal asymptotically Euclidean solutions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 David Maxwell

We generalize a result of Vollick constraining the possible behaviors of the renormalized expected stress-energy tensor of a free massless scalar field in two dimensional spacetimes that are globally conformal to Minkowski spacetime.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-07 Eanna E. Flanagan

In this article we initiate a systematic study of the well-posedness theory of the Einstein constraint equations on compact manifolds with boundary. This is an important problem in general relativity, and it is particularly important in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Michael Holst , Gantumur Tsogtgerel