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A necessary condition for a globally hyperbolic spacetime ${\mathbb R}\times \Sigma$ to admit a maximal slice is that the Cauchy slice $\Sigma$ admit a metric with nonnegative scalar curvature, $R\ge 0$. In this paper, the two cases…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-25 Donald M. Witt

We prove a globally hyperbolic spacetime with locally Lipschitz continuous metric and timelike distributional Ricci curvature bounded from below obeys the timelike measure contraction property. The remarkable class of examples of spacetimes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Mathias Braun , Marta Sálamo Candal

We prove that the maximal development of any spherically symmetric spacetime with collisionless matter (obeying the Vlasov equation) or a massless scalar field (obeying the massless wave equation) and possessing a constant mean curvature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Gregory A. Burnett , Alan D. Rendall

We present a criterion for the stochastic completeness of a submanifold in terms of its distance to a hypersurface in the ambient space. This relies in a suitable version of the Hessian comparison theorem. In the sequel we apply a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-24 G. Pacelli Bessa , Jorge H. de Lira , Adriano A. Medeiros

For compact Riemann surfaces, the collar theorem and Bers' partition theorem are major tools for working with simple closed geodesics. The main goal of this paper is to prove similar theorems for hyperbolic cone-surfaces. Hyperbolic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-08-23 Emily B. Dryden , Hugo Parlier

We introduce several new notions of (sectional) curvature bounds for Lorentzian pre-length spaces: On the one hand, we provide convexity/concavity conditions for the (modified) time separation function, and, on the other hand, we study…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Tobias Beran , Michael Kunzinger , Felix Rott

In this paper we study complete manifolds equipped with smooth measures whose spectrum of the weighted Laplacian has an optimal positive lower bound and the $m$-dimensional Bakry-\'Emery Ricci curvature is bounded from below by some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-08-23 Jia-Yong Wu

We review the superspace technique to determine supersymmetric spacetimes in the framework of off-shell formulations for supergravity in diverse dimensions using the case of 3D N=2 supergravity theories as an illustrative example. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-01 Sergei M. Kuzenko

We prove a warped product splitting theorem for manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded from below in the spirit of [Croke-Kleiner, \emph{Duke Math.\;J}.\;(1992)], but instead of asking that one boundary component is compact and mean-convex,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Alessandro Cucinotta , Andrea Mondino

Assuming minimal regularity assumptions on the data, we revisit the classical problem of finding isometric immersions into the Minkowski spacetime for hypersurfaces of a Lorentzian manifold. Our approach encompasses metrics having Sobolev…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-12-28 Philippe G. LeFloch , Cristinel Mardare , Sorin Mardare

In this paper, we use our results concerning temporal foliations of causal sets in order to provide a new proof of Geroch's Theorem on temporal foliations in a globally hyperbolic spacetime.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-25 Ali Bleybel

In this paper, we obtain general conditions under which the wave equation is well-posed in spacetimes with metrics of Lipschitz regularity. In particular, the results can be applied to spacetimes where there is a loss of regularity on a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-14 Yafet Sanchez Sanchez , James A. Vickers

We prove a transverse diameter theorem in the context of Lorentzian foliations, which can be interpreted as a Hawking--Penrose-type singularity theorem for timelike geodesics transverse to the foliation. In order to develop the necessary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Francisco C. Caramello , Henrique A. Puel Martins , Ivan P. Costa e Silva

In this work, we study the geometric properties of spacelike foliations by hypersurfaces on a Lorentz manifold. We investigate conditions for the leaves being stable, totally geodesic or totally umbilical. We consider that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-21 Aldir Brasil , Sharief Deshmukh , Euripedes Carvalho da Silva , Paulo Sousa

In the authors' previous work, it was shown that if a zero mean curvature $C^4$-differentiable hypersurface in an arbitrarily given Lorentzian manifold admits a degenerate light-like point, then the hypersurface contains a light-like…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-30 Masaaki Umehara , Kotaro Yamada

We establish volume comparison results for balls in Riemannian manifolds with $C^{1,1}$-metrics with a lower bound on the Ricci tensor and for the evolution of spacelike, acausal, causally complete hypersurfaces with an upper bound on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-15 Melanie Graf

In this paper, we study complete space-like $\lambda$-hypersurfaces in the Lorentzian space $\mathbb R^{n+1}_1$. As the result, we prove some rigidity theorems for these hypersurfaces including the complete space-like self-shrinkers in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-11 Xingxiao Li , Xiufen Chang

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

A number of techniques in Lorentzian geometry, such as those used in the proofs of singularity theorems, depend on certain smooth coverings retaining interesting global geometric properties, including causal ones. In this note we give…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Ettore Minguzzi , Ivan P. Costa e Silva

We generalize the splitting theorem of Cai-Galloway for complete Riemannian manifolds with $\Ric\geq-(n-1)$ admitting a family of compact hypersurfaces tending to infinity with mean curvatures tending to $n-1$ sufficiently fast to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-04 Jeffrey S. Case , Peng Wu