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A flat complete causal Lorentzian manifold is called {\it strictly causal} if the past and the future of each its point are closed near this point. We consider strictly causal manifolds with unipotent holonomy groups and assign to a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 V. M. Gichev , E. A. Meshcheryakov

A complete classification of all zonal, continuous, and translation invariant valuations on convex bodies is established. The valuations obtained are expressed as principal value integrals with respect to the area measures. The convergence…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-13 Jonas Knoerr

The differential-geometric structure of the manifold of smooth shapes is applied to the theory of shape optimization problems. In particular, a Riemannian shape gradient with respect to the first Sobolev metric and the Steklov-Poincar\'{e}…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Kathrin Welker

Chernov-Nemirovski observed that the existence of a globally hyperbolic Lorentzian metric on a (3 + 1)-spacetime pins down a smooth structure on the underlying 4-manifold. In this paper, we point out that the diffeomorphism type of a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Rafael Torres

We begin by studying the surface area of an ellipsoid in n-dimensional Euclidean space as the function of the lengths of the semi-axes. We write down an explicit formula as an integral over the unit sphere in n-dimensions and use this…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Igor Rivin

Consider a BV function on a Riemannian manifold. What is its differential? And what about the Hessian of a convex function? These questions have clear answers in terms of (co)vector/matrix valued measures if the manifold is the Euclidean…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Camillo Brena , Nicola Gigli

Given a Riemannian manifold M and a hypersurface H in M, it is well known that infinitesimal convexity on a neighborhood of a point in H implies local convexity. We show in this note that the same result holds in a semi-Riemannian manifold.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-15 Erasmo Caponio

We begin with a basic exploration of the (point-set topological) notion of Hausdorff closed limits in the spacetime setting. Specifically, we show that this notion of limit is well suited to sequences of achronal sets, and use this to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-28 Gregory J. Galloway , Carlos Vega

The convex shape contained in a disk having prescribed area and maximal perimeter is completely characterized in terms of the area fraction. The solution is always a polygon having all but one sides equal. The lengths of the sides are…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Beniamin Bogosel

Methods for measuring convexity defects of compacts in R^n abound. However, none of the those measures seems to take into account continuity. Continuity in convexity measure is essential for optimization, stability analysis, global…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Abel Douzal , Ferdinand Jacobé de Naurois

We characterize convex isoperimetric sets in the Heisenberg group endowed with horizontal perimeter. We first prove Sobolev regularity for a certain class of vector fields in the plane with bounded variation, related to the curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Roberto Monti , Matthieu Rickly

We obtain a Principal Kinematic Formula and a Crofton Formula for surface area measures of convex bodies, both involving linear operators on the vector space of signed measures on the unit sphere $S^{d-1}$. These formulas are related to a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-14 Paul Goodey , Daniel Hug , Wolfgang Weil

It is known that the space of convex polygons in the Euclidean plane with fixed normals, up to homotheties and translations, endowed with the area form, is isometric to a hyperbolic polyhedron. In this note we show a class of convex…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-05 François Fillastre

The Brunn-Minkowski theory in convex geometry concerns, among other things, the volumes, mixed volumes, and surface area measures of convex bodies. We study generalizations of these concepts to Borel measures with density in…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Matthieu Fradelizi , Dylan Langharst , Mokshay Madiman , Artem Zvavitch

In this paper, under suitable settings, we can obtain the existence and uniqueness of solutions to a class of Hessian quotient equations with Dirichlet boundary condition in Lorentz-Minkowski space $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}_{1}$, which can be seen…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-04 Ya Gao , YanLing Gao , Jing Mao

We explore analogs of classical centro-affine invariant isoperimetric inequalities, such as the Blaschke--Santal\'o inequality and the $L_p$-affine isoperimetric inequalities, for convex bodies in spherical space. Specifically, we establish…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Florian Besau , Elisabeth M. Werner

The paper proposes extensions of the usual notions of Finslerian volume to time orientable Finsler spacetime manifolds. The basic idea is to replace, in the classical Busemann-Hausdorff and Holmes-Thompson definitions, integration on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-30 Nicoleta Voicu

Lightlike Cartan geometries are introduced as Cartan geometries modelled on the future lightlike cone in Lorentz-Minkowski spacetime. Then, we provide an approach to the study of lightlike manifolds from this point of view. It is stated…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Francisco J. Palomo

We consider inverse problems for the Einstein equation with a time-depending metric on a 4-dimensional globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifold $(M,g)$. We formulate the concept of active measurements for relativistic models. We do this by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-30 Yaroslav Kurylev , Matti Lassas , Gunther Uhlmann

A parallel lightlike vector field on a Lorentzian manifold $X$ naturally defines a foliation $\mathcal{F}$ of codimension one. If either all leaves of $\mathcal{F}$ are compact or $X$ itself is compact admitting a compact leaf and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-10-12 Kordian Lärz