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To confront relativity theory with observation, it is necessary to split spacetime into its temporal and spatial components. The (1+3) timelike threading approach involves restrictions on the gravitational potentials $(g_{\mu \nu})$, while…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 D. Bini , C. Chicone , B. Mashhoon

We consider Lorentzian General Relativity in a cavity with a timelike boundary, with conformal boundary conditions and also a generalization of these boundary conditions. We focus on the linearized gravitational dynamics about the static…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-04 Xiaoyi Liu , Harvey S. Reall , Jorge E. Santos , Toby Wiseman

In the Ashtekar-Barbero formulation of canonical general relativity based on an SU(2) connection, Lorentz covariance is a subtle issue which has been the focus of some debate. Here we present a Lorentz covariant formulation generalising the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-18 Steffen Gielen

The regularity of limit spaces of Riemannian manifolds with L^p curvature bounds, $p > n/2$, is investigated under no apriori non-collapsing assumption. A regular subset, defined by a local volume growth condition for a limit measure, is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Lothar Schiemanowski

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

We prove a limit curve theorem for incomplete metric spaces. Our main application is to Sormani and Vegas' null distance, where our results give strong control on the Lorentzian lengths of limit curves. We also show that regular…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Adam Rennie , Ben Whale

We fully describe all horocycle orbit closures in $ \mathbb{Z} $-covers of compact hyperbolic surfaces. Our results rely on a careful analysis of the efficiency of all distance minimizing geodesic rays in the cover. As a corollary we obtain…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-09-17 James Farre , Or Landesberg , Yair Minsky

In general relativity, time functions are crucial objects whose existence and properties are intimately tied to the causal structure of a spacetime and also to the initial value formulation of the Einstein equations. In this work we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-14 Annegret Burtscher , Leonardo García-Heveling

We prove Hawking's singularity theorem for spacetime metrics of local Lipschitz regularity. The proof rests on (1) new estimates for the Ricci curvature of regularising smooth metrics that are based upon a quite general Friedrichs-type…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Matteo Calisti , Melanie Graf , Eduardo Hafemann , Michael Kunzinger , Roland Steinbauer

We present a new development of the causal boundary of spacetimes, originally introduced by Geroch, Kronheimer and Penrose. Given a strongly causal spacetime (or, more generally, a chronological set), we reconsider the GKP ideas to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jose L. Flores

In this paper we present a rigidity theorem for locally isometric hypersurfaces with a curvature restriction in de Sitter space. This is an analogue to the case for Riemannian space forms given by Guan and Shen in [5].

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Tristan Hasson

In this paper we propose a weaker version of Penrose's much heeded Strong Cosmic Censorship (SCC) conjecture, asserting inextentability of maximal Cauchy developments by manifolds with Lipschitz continuous Lorentzian metrics and Riemann…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-11 Moritz Reintjes

We introduce a framework of structural approximation to represent Lorentz-invariant Minkowski space-time as the limit of finite cyclic lattices, each equipped with the action of a finite quasi-Lorentz group. This construction provides a…

General Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Boris Zilber

We prove that for continuous Lorentz-Finsler spaces timelike completeness implies inextendibility. Furthermore, we prove that under suitable locally Lipschitz conditions on the Finsler fundamental function the continuous causal curves that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-30 E. Minguzzi , S. Suhr

We discuss the topological nature of the boundary spacetime, the conformal infinity of the ambient cosmological metric. Due to the existence of a homothetic group, the bounding spacetime must be equipped not with the usual Euclidean metric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-25 Ignatios Antoniadis , Spiros Cotsakis

We define a completely new space-time starting from the well known Schwarzschild Space time by defining a new polar angle $\phi '= \phi - \omega t$ and then redefining the periodicity: instead of demanding that the original angle be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-31 Arka Prabha Banik , Eduardo Guendelman

Following a survey of the abstract boundary definition of Scott and Szekeres, a rigidity result is proved for the smooth case, showing that the topological structure of the regular part of this boundary in invariantly defined.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 C. J. Fama , C. J. S. Clarke

We prove bounds for the volume of neighborhoods of algebraic sets, in the euclidean space or the sphere, in terms of the degree of the defining polynomials, the number of variables and the dimension of the algebraic set, without any…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Saugata Basu , Antonio Lerario

We find a compactification of the $\mathrm{SL}(3,\mathbb{R})$-Hitchin component by studying the degeneration of the Blaschke metrics on the associated equivariant affine spheres. In the process, we establish the closure in the space of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-04 Charles Ouyang , Andrea Tamburelli

Some analysis on the Lorentzian distance in a spacetime with controlled sectional (or Ricci) curvatures is done. In particular, we focus on the study of the restriction of such distance to a spacelike hypersurface satisfying the Omori-Yau…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-16 Luis J. Alias , Ana Hurtado , Vicente Palmer