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We describe a class of modified gravity theories that deform general relativity in a way that breaks time reversal invariance and, very mildly, locality. The algebra of constraints, local physical degrees of freedom, and their linearized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-12 Marina Cortes , Henrique Gomes , Lee Smolin

We prove several sharp distortion and monotonicity theorems for spherically convex functions defined on the unit disk involving geometric quantities such as spherical length, spherical area and total spherical curvature. These results can…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Maria Kourou , Oliver Roth

Familiar textbook quantum mechanics assumes a fixed background spacetime to define states on spacelike surfaces and their unitary evolution between them. Quantum theory has changed as our conceptions of space and time have evolved. But…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-06-09 James B. Hartle

In this paper we study the convexity and concavity properties of generalized trigonometric and hyperbolic functions in case of Logarithmic mean.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-29 Barkat Ali Bhayo , Li Yin

In this paper, we obtain some new upper bounds for differantiable mappings whose q-th powers are geometrically convex and monotonically decreasing by using the H\"older inequality, Power mean inequality and properties of modulus.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-12-31 M. Emin Özdemir

The effect of gravity in Maxwell's equations is often treated as a medium property. The commonly used formulation is based on managing Maxwell's equations in exactly the same form as in Minkowski spacetime and expressing the effect of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-19 Jai-chan Hwang , Hyerim Noh

In this paper, two new lemmas are proved and inequalities are established for co-ordinated convex functions and co-ordinated s-convex functions.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2011-07-18 M. Emin Ozdemir , Havva Kavurmaci , Ahmet Ocak Akdemir , Merve Avci

In geometry, there are several challenging problems studying numbers associated to convex bodies. For example, the packing density problem, the kissing number problem, the covering density problem, the packing-covering constant problem,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-18 Chuanming Zong

The "old-new" concept of convex-hull function was investigated by several authors in the last seventy years. A recent research on it led to some other volume functions as the covariogram function, the widthness function or the so-called…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-09 Ákos G. Horváth

Extended real-valued functions are often used in optimization theory, but in different ways for infimum problems and for supremum problems. We present an approach to extended real-valued functions that works for all types of problems and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-11 Petra Weidner

This work investigates some global questions about cosmological spacetimes with two dimensional spherical, plane and hyperbolic symmetry containing matter. The result is, that these spacetimes admit a global foliation by prescribed mean…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Oliver Henkel

We consider defining time as a function of a cyclical field, an abstraction of a clock. The definition of time corresponds to a novel interpretation of the relationship between space-time coordinates of observers at different locations in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-29 Yaneer Bar-Yam

We introduce and study the notion of (e,y)-conjugate for a proper and e-convex function in locally convex spaces, which is an extension of the concept of the conjugate. The mutual relationships between the concepts of (e,y)-conjugacy and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Mohammad Hossein Alizadeh , Alireza Youhannaee Zanjani

This paper presents a brief but comprehensive introduction to certain mathematical techniques in General Relativity. Familiar mathematical procedures are investigated taking into account the complications of introducing a non trivial…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-06 Andrew DeBenedictis

We show that domains, that allow for convex functions with unbounded gradient at their boundary, are convex.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Oliver C. Schnürer

All continuous, SL$(n)$ and translation invariant valuations on the space of convex functions on ${\mathbb R}^n$ are completely classified.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Andrea Colesanti , Monika Ludwig , Fabian Mussnig

We give examples where the Heun function exists in general relativity. It turns out that while a wave equation written in the background of certain metric yields Mathieu functions as its solutions in four space-time dimensions, the trivial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Birkandan , M. Hortacsu

If $X$ is a convex surface in a Euclidean space, then the squared intrinsic distance function $\dist^2(x,y)$ is DC (d.c., delta-convex) on $X\times X$ in the only natural extrinsic sense. An analogous result holds for the squared distance…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-20 Jan Rataj , Ludek Zajicek

Let R+ = (0,infinity) and let M be the family of all mean values of two numbers in R+ (some examples are the arithmetic, geometric, and harmonic means). Given m1, m2 in M, we say that a function f : R+ to R+ is (m1,m2)-convex if f(m1(x,y))…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2008-05-11 G. D. Anderson , M. K. Vamanamurthy , M. Vuorinen

We study the convexity/concavity properties of the generalized $p$-trigonometric functions in the sense of P. Lindqvist with respect to the power means.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2012-09-06 Barkat Ali Bhayo , Matti Vuorinen