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We study the problem of diagonalization of the metric of 3-dimensional Lorentzian manifold. Applying the technique of moving frames, we prove that every smooth Lorentzian 3-manifold admits an atlas in which the metric assumes a diagonal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-10 Romeo Segnan Dalmasso

We prove that every proper $n$-dimensional length metric space admits an "approximate isometric embedding" into Lorentzian space $\mathbb{R}^{3n+6,1}$. By an "approximate isometric embedding" we mean an embedding which preserves the energy…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-31 Barry Minemyer

We consider a Lorentzian metric in $\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{R}^n$. We show that if we know the lengths of the space-time geodesics starting at $(0,y,\eta)$ when $t=0$, then we can recover the metric at $y$. We prove the rigidity of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Gregory Eskin

We consider a class of piecewise hyperbolic maps from the unit square to itself preserving a contracting foliation and inducing a piecewise expanding quotient map, with infinite derivative (like the first return maps of Lorenz like flows).…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-10-05 Stefano Galatolo , Isaia Nisoli

The non-existence of non-trivial conformally symmetric manifolds in the three-dimensional Riemannian setting is shown. In Lorentzian signature, a complete local classification is obtained. Furthermore, the isometry classes are examined.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-07 E. Calviño-Louzao , E. García-Río , J. Seoane-Bascoy , R. Vázquez-Lorenzo

In this paper, we introduce the concept of nearly convex set-valued mappings and investigate fundamental properties of these mappings. Additionally, we establish a geometric approach for generalized differentiation of nearly convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-20 Nguyen Mau Nam , Nguyen Nang Thieu , Nguyen Dong Yen

We study the low-regularity (in-)extendibility of spacetimes within the synthetic-geometric framework of Lorentzian length spaces developed in [KS:17]. To this end, we introduce appropriate notions of geodesics and timelike geodesic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-07 James D. E. Grant , Michael Kunzinger , Clemens Sämann

Supersymmetric solutions of supergravity theories, and consequently metrics with special holonomy, have played an important role in the development of string theory. We describe how a Lorentzian manifold is either completely reducible, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 J Brannlund , A Coley , S Hervik

The Lorentzian metric structure used in any field theory allows one to implement the relativistic notion of causality and to define a notion of time dimension. This article investigates the possibility that at the microscopic level the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-11 Shinji Mukohyama , Jean-Philippe Uzan

A new notion of metric differentiability of set-valued functions at a point is introduced in terms of right and left limits of special set-valued metric divided differences of first order. A local metric linear approximant of a metrically…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Alona Mokhov , Nira Dyn , Elza Farkhi

The standard definition of gravitational lensing magnification is generalized to Lorentzian spacetimes, and it is shown how it can be interpreted geometrically in terms of the van Vleck determinant and the exponential map. This is joint…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-21 Marcus C. Werner

We explore the applications of Lorentzian polynomials to the fields of algebraic geometry, analytic geometry and convex geometry. In particular, we establish a series of intersection theoretic inequalities, which we call rKT property, with…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Jiajun Hu , Jian Xiao

In this note, we consider perturbations of Minkowski space as well as more general spacetimes on which the wave operator $\square_g$ is essentially self-adjoint. We review a recent result which gives the meromorphic continuation of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Nguyen Viet Dang , Michał Wrochna

This paper studies the singularities of Cullen-regular functions of one quaternionic variable. The quaternionic Laurent series prove to be Cullen-regular. The singularities of Cullen-regular functions are thus classified as removable,…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2010-04-14 Caterina Stoppato

In this paper, we establish a complete structural description of flat Lorentzian Lie groups, i.e., Lie groups endowed with a flat left invariant Lorentzian metric, thereby resolving a long-standing open problem in the theory of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Mohamed Boucetta

Inspired by some Lorentzian versions of the notion of metric and length space introduced by Kunzinger and S\"amman, and more recently, by M\"uller, and Minguzzi and S\"uhr, we revisit the notion of Lorentzian metric space in order to later…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-17 Saúl Burgos , José Luis Flores , Jónatan Herrera

Transcendental functions, such as exponentials and logarithms, appear in a broad array of computational domains: from simulations in curvilinear coordinates, to interpolation, to machine learning. Unfortunately they are typically expensive…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Jonah M. Miller , Joshua C. Dolence , Daniel Holladay

In this paper we prove Hessian and Laplacian comparison theorems for the Lorentzian distance function in a spacetime with sectional (or Ricci) curvature bounded by a certain function by means of a comparison criterion for Riccati equations.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Debora Impera

A simple covariant model is presented where the signature of the metric is a dynamical field. Degenerate minima of a curvature-minimizing potential correspond to Euclidean, Lorentzian or mixed phases of geometry. The Lorentzian phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-14 Miguel Bermudez

This short note gathers known results to state that the squared distance function to a (nonconvex) closed set of an Euclidean space is Polyak-{\L}ojasiewicz. As a fuzzy reciprocate, we also recall that every Polyak-{\L}ojasiewicz function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-26 Guillaume Garrigos