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We study one of the interesting properties of the electromagnetic wave propagation in the curved Schwarzschild background spacetime in the framework of general relativity (GR). The electromagnetic wave equation has been derived from vacuum…

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Circular photon orbits have become an attractive topic in recent years. They play extremely important roles in black hole shadows, gravitational lensings, quasi-normal modes, and spacetime topological properties. In our recent work,…

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An examples of solutions of nonlinear differential equations associated with developable, ruled and minimal surfaces are constructed.

General Physics · Physics 2010-02-05 V. Dryuma

We prove two rigidity results for surfaces lying in the standard null hypersurfaces of Schwarzschild spacetime satisfying certain mean curvature type equations. The first is for the equation $\alpha_H = - d\log |H|$ studied in \cite{WWZ}.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Po-Ning Chen , Ye-Kai Wang

In this paper we derive the geodesic equation for massive particles and light for the black spindle spacetime. The solution for light can be formulated in terms of the Weierstra{\ss} {\wp}-, {\sigma}- and {\zeta}-function, whereas a part of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Kai Flathmann , Noa Wassermann

We study linear gravitational perturbations of Schwarzschild spacetime by solving numerically Regge-Wheeler-Zerilli equations in time domain using hyperboloidal surfaces and a compactifying radial coordinate. We stress the importance of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-26 Anil Zenginoglu

On any space-like W-surface in the three-dimensional Minkowski space we introduce locally natural principal parameters and prove that such a surface is determined uniquely up to motion by a special invariant function, which satisfies a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-14 Georgi Ganchev , Vesselka Mihova

An analysis of conformal geodesics in the Schwarzschild-de Sitter and Schwarzschild-anti de Sitter families of spacetimes is given. For both families of spacetimes we show that initial data on a spacelike hypersurface can be given such that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-14 Alfonso García-Parrado Gómez-Lobo , Edgar Gasperin , Juan A. Valiente Kroon

The propagation of light in area metric spacetimes, which naturally emerge as refined backgrounds in quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, is studied from first principles. In the geometric-optical limit, light rays are found to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-28 Raffaele Punzi , Frederic P. Schuller , Mattias N. R. Wohlfarth

We analytically construct an infinite number of trapped toroids in spherically symmetric Cauchy hypersurfaces of the Einstein equations. We focus on initial data which represent "constant density stars" momentarily at rest. There exists an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-29 Janusz Karkowski , Patryk Mach , Edward Malec , Niall O'Murchadha , Naqing Xie

The authors study singular points of lightlike hypersurfaces of the de Sitter space S^{n+1}_1 and the geometry of hypersurfaces and use them for construction of an invariant normalization and an invariant affine connection of lightlike…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Maks A. Akivis , Vladislav V. Goldberg

The Teichm\"{u}ller curve is the fiber space over Teichm\"{u}ller space of closed Riemann surfaces, where the fiber over a point in Teichm\"{u}ller space is the underlying surface. We derive formulas for sectional curvatures on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-13 Ren Guo , Subhojoy Gupta , Zheng Huang

We study surfaces with constant anisotropic mean curvature which are invariant under a helicoidal motion. For functionals with axially symmetric Wulff shapes, we generalize the recently developed twizzler representation of Perdomo to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Chad Kuhns , Bennett Palmer

We study spacelike hypersurfaces in anti-De Sitter spacetime that evolve by the Lagrangian angle of their Gau\ss\ maps.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-12 Knut Smoczyk

We consider large time asymptotics for damped nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations. It is known that the nonlinear solution asymptotically behaves like a linear solution when time $t$ tends to infinity in the energy space. We prove that its…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Kodai Takagi , Shun Takizawa

The light scattered by an extrasolar Earth-like planet's surface and atmosphere will vary in intensity and color as the planet rotates; the resulting light curve will contain information about the planet's properties. Since most of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric B. Ford , Sara Seager , Edwin L. Turner

Uniqueness and non-existence results on complete constant mean curvature spacelike hypersurfaces lying between two spacelike slice in the Einstein-de Sitter spacetime are given. They are obtained from a Liouvielle-type theorem applied to a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-01-06 Rafael M. Rubio

In this note we show that any inextensible time-symmetric space-like hypersurface of differentiability class $C^k$, $k\geq 2$ isometrically embedded in the maximal Schwarzschild geometry must intersect the bifurcation sphere.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-13 Alfonso García-Parrado Gómez-Lobo

We study endomorphism rings of principally polarized abelian surfaces over finite fields from a computational viewpoint with a focus on exhaustiveness. In particular, we address the cases of non-ordinary and non-simple varieties. For each…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Samuele Anni , Gaetan Bisson , Annamaria Iezzi , Elisa Lorenzo García , Benjamin Wesolowski

In this paper we describe the $\epsilon$-isothermic surfaces in the pseudo-Euclidean 3-space and we obtain the pseudo-Calapso equation. In sequence, we classify the Dupin surfaces in pseudo-Euclidean 3-space having distinct principal…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-12-09 Armando M. V. Corro , Carlos M. C. Riveros , Marcelo L. Ferro