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This paper deals with the generalization of usual round spheres in the flat Minkowski spacetime to the case of a generic four-dimensional spacetime manifold $M$. We consider geometric properties of sphere-like submanifolds in $M$ and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-26 Hans-Peter Gittel , Jacek Jezierski , Jerzy Kijowski

In this paper, we prove that time-like constant slope surfaces can be reparametrized by using rotation matrices corresponding to unit time-like split quaternions and homothetic motions. Afterwards we give some examples to illustrate our…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Murat Babaarslan , Yusuf Yayli

E. Cartan proved that conformally flat hypersurfaces in S^{n+1} for n>3 have at most two distinct principal curvatures and locally envelop a one-parameter family of (n-1)-spheres. We prove that the Gauss-Codazzi equation for conformally…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Neil Donaldson , Chuu-Lian Terng

We consider convex spacelike polyhedra oriented in Minkowski space. These are the classical analogues of spinfoam intertwiners. We point out a parametrization of these shapes using null face normals, with no constraints or redundancies. Our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-12 Yasha Neiman

In this paper we study constant positive Gauss curvature $K$ surfaces in the 3-sphere $S^3$ with $0<K<1$ as well as constant negative curvature surfaces. We show that the so-called normal Gauss map for a surface in $S^3$ with Gauss…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-18 David Brander , Jun-ichi Inoguchi , Shimpei Kobayashi

$\mathcal{I}$-non-degenerate spaces are spacetimes that can be characterized uniquely by their scalar curvature invariants. The ultimate goal of the current work is to construct a basis for the scalar polynomial curvature invariants in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-22 A. A. Coley , A. MacDougall , D. D. McNutt

In this paper we study maps (curved flats) into symmetric spaces which are tangent at each point to a flat of the symmetric space. Important examples of such maps arise from isometric immersions of space forms into space forms via their…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Dirk Ferus , Franz Pedit

Equivalences between conformal foliations on Euclidean $3$-space, Hermitian structures on Euclidean $4$-space, shear-free ray congruences on Minkowski $4$-space, and holomorphic foliations on complex $4$-space are explained geometrically…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 P. Baird , J. C. Wood

A tensor invariant is defined on a quaternionic contact manifold in terms of the curvature and torsion of the Biquard connection involving derivatives up to third order of the contact form. This tensor, called quaternionic contact conformal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-12 Stefan Ivanov , Dimiter Vassilev

We define an invariant of rational homology 3-spheres via vector fields. The construction of our invariant is a generalization of both that of the Kontsevich-Kuperberg-Thurston invariant and that of Watanabe's Morse homotopy invariant,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Tatsuro Shimizu

The aim of this paper is to present a new perspective on the generation of developable trajectory ruled surfaces in Minkowski 3-space. Involute trajectory ruled surfaces generated by the Frenet trihedron, moving along spacelike involutes of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-08 Mustafa Bilici

We study infinitesimal conformal deformations of a triangulated surface in Euclidean space and investigate the change in its extrinsic geometry. A deformation of vertices is conformal if it preserves length cross-ratios. On one hand,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-19 Wai Yeung Lam , Ulrich Pinkall

We prove a novel method for the embedding of a 3-fold rotationally symmetric sphere-type mesh onto a subset of the plane with 3-fold rotational symmetry. The embedding is free-boundary with the only additional constraint on the image set is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Tom Gilat , Ben Gilat

We study teleparallel gravitational theories with are invariant under the conformal transformations. Wide family of the gravitational Lagrangians that are invariant under conformal transformations have investigated. Cosmological solutions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-24 Davood Momeni , Ratbay Myrzakulov

W. Thurston proved that to a triangulation of the sphere of non-negative combinatorial curvature, one can associate an element in a certain lattice over the Eisenstein integers such that its orbit is a complete invariant of the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-09-08 Radu Laza

A new class of conformal invariants for a given spacetime $M$ is introduced exploiting the conformal geometry of any light ray $\Gamma$. Each congruence of light rays passing through a given point $p$ defines the sky $S(p)$ of such point.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-05 A. Bautista , A. Ibort , J. Lafuente

The Bargmann-Wigner formalism is adapted to spherical surfaces embedded in three to eleven dimensions. This is demonstrated to generate wave equations in spherical space for a variety of antisymmetric tensor fields. Some of these equations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 D. G. C. McKeon , T. N. Sherry

A few years ago, some of us devised a method to obtain integrable systems in (2+1)-dimensions from the classical non-Abelian pure Chern-Simons action via reduction of the gauge connection in Hermitian symmetric spaces. In this paper we show…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Martina , Kur. Myrzakul , R. Myrzakulov , G. Soliani

On any spacelike surface in a lightcone of four dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space a distinguished smooth function is considered. It is shown how both extrinsic and intrinsic geometry of such a surface is codified by this function. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-02-22 Francisco J. Palomo , Alfonso Romero

Given a polyhedral surface, assume that it is prohibited to change the shape and size of any face but it is permissible to change the dihedral angles between the faces. A polyhedral surface is said to be flexible if it is possible to change…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Victor Alexandrov