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We investigate the stability of timelike Ricci curvature lower bounds under low-regularity limits of Lorentzian metrics. Specifically, we prove that the synthetic curvature-dimension condition $TCD^e_p(K,N)$, which provides an optimal…

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This paper makes a formal study of asymptotically hyperbolic Einstein metrics given, as conformal infinity, a conformal manifold with boundary. The space on which such an Einstein metric exists thus has a finite boundary in addition to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-09 Stephen E. McKeown

We present several key results for Lorentzian pre-length spaces with global timelike curvature bounds. Most significantly, we construct a Lorentzian analogue to Alexandrov's Patchwork, thus proving that suitably nice Lorentzian pre-length…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Tobias Beran , Lewis Napper , Felix Rott

In recent years it has been recognized that the hyperbolic numbers (an extension of complex numbers, defined as z=x+h*y with h*h=1 and x,y real numbers) can be associated to space-time geometry as stated by the Lorentz transformations of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Francesco Catoni , Roberto Cannata , Vincenzo Catoni , Paolo Zampetti

This is a survey on the analytic theory of linear wave equations on globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds. There is no claim of originality.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-06-14 Christian Baer

Uniqueness (up to isometries) and existence of limits are studied in the context of Cheeger-Gromov convergence of spacetimes. To address the non-compactness of the vector isometry group in the semi-Riemannian setting, standard pointed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Saúl Burgos , José L. Flores , Miguel Sánchez

We consider general relativity with cosmological constant minimally coupled to the electromagnetic field and assume that the four-dimensional space-time manifold is a warped product of two surfaces with Lorentzian and Euclidean signature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-17 D. E. Afanasev , M. O. Katanaev

It is shown that the warped product spacetime P=M *_f H, where H is a complete Riemannian manifold, and the original spacetime M share necessarily the same causality properties, the only exceptions being the properties of causal continuity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-24 E. Minguzzi

Some well-known Lorentzian concepts are transferred into the more general setting of cone structures, which provide both the causality of the spacetime and the notion of cone geodesics without making use of any metric. Lightlike…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Miguel Ángel Javaloyes , Enrique Pendás-Recondo

Restrictions are obtained on the topology of a compact divergence-free null hypersurface in a four-dimensional Lorentzian manifold whose Ricci tensor is zero or satisfies some weaker conditions. This is done by showing that each null…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Alan D. Rendall

We study the geometry of compact Lorentzian manifolds that admit a somewhere timelike Killing vector field, and whose isometry group has infinitely many connected components. Up to a finite cover, such manifolds are products (or amalgamated…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-02-04 Paolo Piccione , Abdelghani Zeghib

This memoir contains an overview of the proof of the bounded $L^2$ curvature conjecture. More precisely we show that the time of existence of a classical solution to the Einstein-vacuum equations depends only on the $L^2$-norm of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-01-21 Sergiu Klainerman , Igor Rodnianski , Jeremie Szeftel

We discuss the geometry of timelike surfaces (two-dimensional submanifolds) in a Lorentzian manifold and its interpretation in terms of general relativity. A classification of such surfaces is presented which distinguishes four cases of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-06-27 Wolfgang Hasse , Volker Perlick

Many classical results in relativity theory concerning spherically symmetric space-times have easy generalizations to warped product space-times, with a two-dimensional Lorentzian base and arbitrary dimensional Riemannian fibers. We first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-20 Xinliang An , Willie Wai Yeung Wong

Spacetimes with collisionless matter evolving from data on a compact Cauchy surface with hyperbolic symmetry are shown to be timelike and null geodesically complete in the expanding direction, provided the data satisfy a certain size…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerhard Rein

We analyze the resolvent and define the scattering matrix for asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds with metrics which have a polyhomogeneous expansion near the boundary, and also prove that there is always an essential singularity of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-14 Leonardo Marazzi

Using the standard Whitney topologies on spaces of Lorentzian metrics, we show that the existence of causal incomplete geodesics is a $C^\infty$-generic feature within the class of spacetimes of a given dimension $n\geq 3$ that are stably…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Ivan Pontual Costa e Silva , Victor Luis Espinoza

We establish conditions for nonexistence of global solutions for a class of quasilinear parabolic problems with a potential on complete, non-compact Riemannian manifolds, including the Porous Medium Equation and the p-Laplacian with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Dorothea-Enrica von Criegern , Gabriele Grillo , Dario Monticelli

We study two inverse problems on a globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifold $(M,g)$. The problems are: 1. Passive observations in spacetime: Consider observations in a neighborhood $V\subset M$ of a time-like geodesic $\mu$. Under natural…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-22 Yaroslav Kurylev , Matti Lassas , Gunther Uhlmann