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We consider a spacetime singularity at $t = 0$ arising in a Kasner-type metric that solves the gravitational equations modified by quantum effects of a conformal field theory (CFT). The resulting constraints can be solved efficiently when…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-13 Sergey N. Solodukhin

Using electromagnetism to study analogue space-times is tantamount to considering consistency conditions for when a given (meta-)material would provide an analogue space-time model or --- vice versa --- characterizing which given metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-27 Sebastian Schuster , Matt Visser

This paper concerns the global theory of properly embedded spacelike surfaces in three-dimensional Minkowski space in relation to their Gaussian curvature. We prove that every regular domain which is not a wedge is uniquely foliated by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Francesco Bonsante , Andrea Seppi , Peter Smillie

We study properties of stable, strictly stable and locally outermost marginally outer trapped surfaces in spacelike hypersurfaces of spacetimes possessing certain symmetries such as isometries, homotheties and conformal Killings. We first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-12 Alberto Carrasco , Marc Mars

We classify all surfaces with constant Gaussian curvature $K$ in Euclidean $3$-space that can be expressed as an implicit equation of type $f(x)+g(y)+h(z)=0$, where $f$, $g$ and $h$ are real functions of one variable. If $K=0$, we prove…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-18 Thomas Hasanis , Rafael López

Variational principles are developed within the framework of a spinor representation of the surface geometry to examine the equilibrium properties of a membrane or interface. This is a far-reaching generalization of the Weierstrass-Enneper…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-02-17 Jemal Guven , Pablo Vázquez-Montejo

This paper is devoted to the Moser-Trudinger inequality on smooth riemanniansurfaces. We establish that the constants involved can be chosen to depend on only 3parameters, which are the systole, isoperimetric constant and curvature of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Samuel Bronstein

Minimal surfaces in the Riemannian product of surfaces of constant curvature have been considered recently, particularly as these products arise as spaces of oriented geodesics of 3-dimensional space-forms. This papers considers more…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Nikos Georgiou , Brendan Guilfoyle

We consider a relaxed notion of energy of non-parametric codimension one surfaces that takes account of area, mean curvature, and Gauss curvature. It is given by the best value obtained by approximation with inscribed polyhedral surfaces.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Domenico Mucci , Alberto Saracco

In this paper, we study Hamiltonian stationary Lagrangian surfaces in complex space forms. We first show that when the mean curvature is a non-zero constant, the second fundamental form is parallel. We then consider the case in which the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Toru Sasahara

We study the existence of at least one conformal metric of prescribed Gaussian curvature on a closed surface $\Sigma$ admitting conical singularities of orders $\alpha_i$'s at points $p_i$'s. In particular, we are concerned with the case…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-20 Teresa D'Aprile , Francesca De Marchis , Isabella Ianni

The Einstein initial-value equations in the extrinsic curvature (Hamiltonian) representation and conformal thin sandwich (Lagrangian) representation are brought into complete conformity by the use of a decomposition of symmetric tensors…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Harald P. Pfeiffer , James W. York

First introduced to describe surfaces embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$, the Willmore invariant is a conformally-invariant extrinsic scalar curvature of a surface that vanishes when the surface minimizes bending and stretching. Both this invariant…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Samuel Blitz

In this paper, close surfaces are considered in 3-dimensional harmonic conformally flat space in point of the variation. It is shown that if the conformal vector field be tangent to surface and the sign of the mean curvature does not change…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-16 Najma mosadegh , Esmaiel Abedi

Following Geroch, Traschen, Mars and Senovilla, we consider Lorentzian manifolds with distributional curvature tensor. Such manifolds represent spacetimes of general relativity that possibly contain gravitational waves, shock waves, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Philippe G. LeFloch , Cristinel Mardare

The Gaussian curvature of a two-dimensional Riemannian manifold is uniquely determined by the choice of the metric. The formulas for computing the curvature in terms of components of the metric, in isothermal coordinates, involve the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-11 Haakan Hedenmalm , Yolanda Perdomo

We consider harmonic immersions in $\R^{\N}$ of compact Riemann surfaces with finitely many punctures where the harmonic coordinate functions are given as real parts of meromorphic functions. We prove that such surfaces have finite total…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-07 Peter Connor , Kevin Li , Matthias Weber

Assuming the stability of soliton surfaces of vanishing Ricci sectional curvature of soliton metric in the nonholonomic frame, we find a solution for the metric in the approximation of weak constant torsion curves with constant Frenet…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-08-15 Garcia de Andrade

We prove a generalisation of the $\epsilon$-property, namely that for any dimension and signature, a metric which is not characterised by its polynomial scalar curvature invariants, there is a frame such that the components of the curvature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Sigbjorn Hervik

The set of volumes of stable surfaces does have accumulation points. In this paper, we study this phenomenon for surfaces with one cyclic quotient singularity, towards answering the question under which conditions we can still have…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Diana Torres