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Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Miroslav Maksimović , Milan Zlatanović , Marija Najdanović

In this work the possible geodesic completeness of an electromagnetic dipole wormhole is studied in detail. The space-time contains a curvature singularity and belongs to a class of solutions to the Einstein-Maxwell equations with a coupled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-23 Juan Carlos Del Águila , Tonatiuh Matos

A time-flat condition on spacelike 2-surfaces in spacetime is considered here. This condition is analogous to constant torsion condition for curves in three dimensional space and has been studied in [2, 4, 5, 12, 13]. In particular, any…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-22 Po-Ning Chen , Mu-Tao Wang , Ye-Kai Wang

The classical construction of the symplectic structure on the space of geodesic trajectories via Hamiltonian reduction fails in the pseudo-Riemannian setting due to a dimensional mismatch created by the null geodesics. This paper proposes a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Patrick Iglesias-Zemmour

This thesis is concerned with extending the idea of geodesic completeness from pseudo-Riemannian to complex geometry: we take, however a completely holomorphicpoint of view; that is to say, a 'metric' will be a (meromorphic) symmetric…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2009-02-26 Claudio Meneghini

Conics in the Euclidean space have been known for their geometrical beauty and also for their power to model several phenomena in real life. It usually happens that when thinking about the conics in a semi-Riemannian manifold, the equations…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-12-17 F. Aceff-Sanchez , L. Del Riego Senior

Deciding whether saddle points exist or are approximable for nonconvex-nonconcave problems is usually intractable. This paper takes a step towards understanding a broad class of nonconvex-nonconcave minimax problems that do remain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Peiyuan Zhang , Jingzhao Zhang , Suvrit Sra

This paper deals with two aspects of relativistic cosmologies with closed (compact and boundless) spatial sections. These spacetimes are based on the theory of General Relativity, and admit a foliation into space sections S(t), which are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-13 Helio V. Fagundes

We study the geodesic convexity of various energy and entropy functionals restricted to (non-geodesically convex) submanifolds of Wasserstein spaces with their induced geometry. We prove a variety of convexity results by means of a simple…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Louis-Pierre Chaintron , Daniel Lacker

We show geodesic completeness of certain compact locally symmetric pseudo-Riemannian manifolds of signature $(2,n)$. Our model space $\mathbf{X}$ is a $1$-connected, indecomposable symmetric space of signature $(2,n)$, that admits a unique…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Malek Hanounah

In this work we study the local behavior of geodesics in the neighborhood of a curvature singularity contained in stationary and axially symmetric space-times. Apart from these properties, the metrics we shall focus on will also be required…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-08 Juan Carlos Del Águila , Tonatiuh Matos

Geodesics are used in a wide array of applications in cosmology and astrophysics. However, it is not a trivial task to efficiently calculate exact geodesic distances in an arbitrary spacetime. We show that in spatially flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-29 William J. Cunningham , David Rideout , James Halverson , Dmitri Krioukov

Many classical facts in Riemannian geometry have their pseudo-Riemannian analogs. For instance, the spaces of space-like and time-like geodesics on a pseudo-Riemannian manifold have natural symplectic structures (just like in the Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-24 B. Khesin , S. Tabachnikov

This is a note on the graphs of two smooth real-valued functions in the plane with no intersection and the natural map onto the region surrounded by them with the canonical projection to the line composed, yielding its Reeb space. The Reeb…

General Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Naoki Kitazawa

Often it is possible to equip the space of all cone geodesics of a strongly convex cone structure with the structure of a smooth contact manifold. This generalizes the analogous notions for the space of light rays of a Lorentzian spacetime.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Jakob Hedicke

We study geodesically complete, singularity free space-times induced by supersymmetric planar domain walls interpolating between Minkowski and anti-de Sitter ($AdS_4$) vacua. A geodesically complete space-time without closed time-like…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 M. Cvetič , R. Davis , S. Griffies , H. H. Soleng

In spaces of nonpositive curvature the existence of isometrically embedded flat (hyper)planes is often granted by apparently weaker conditions on large scales. We show that some such results remain valid for metric spaces with non-unique…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-15 Dominic Descombes , Urs Lang

Convex optimization is a vibrant and successful area due to the existence of a variety of efficient algorithms that leverage the rich structure provided by convexity. Convexity of a smooth set or a function in a Euclidean space is defined…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

We extend the non-commutative coordinates relationship into other than the Minkowski space-time. We clarify the non-commutativity dependency to the geometrical structure. As well as, we find an inverse map between Riemann's normal and…

General Physics · Physics 2018-11-27 Abolfazl Jafari

Classical geometry can be described either in terms of a metric tensor $g_{ab}(x)$ or in terms of the geodesic distance $\sigma^2(x,x')$. Recent work, however, has shown that the geodesic distance is better suited to describe the quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-20 T. Padmanabhan