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This paper completes a fundamental construction in Alexandrov geometry. Previously we gave a new construction of metric spaces with curvature bounds either above or below, namely warped products with intrinsic metric space base and fiber,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-09 Stephanie B. Alexander , Richard L. Bishop

We develop the theory of tamed spaces which are Dirichlet spaces with distribution-valued lower bounds on the Ricci curvature and investigate these from an Eulerian point of view. To this end we analyze in detail singular perturbations of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Matthias Erbar , Chiara Rigoni , Karl-Theodor Sturm , Luca Tamanini

We prove that in two dimensions the synthetic notions of lower bounds on sectional and on Ricci curvature coincide.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-21 Alexander Lytchak , Stephan Stadler

Lu-Minguzzi-Ohta have introduced the notion of a lower $N$-weighted Ricci curvature bound with $\varepsilon$-range, and derived several comparison geometric estimates from a Laplacian comparison theorem for weighted Laplacian. The aim of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-27 Kazuhiro Kuwae , Yohei Sakurai

We present in this paper the formalism for the splitting of a four-dimensional Lorentzian manifold by a set of time-like integral curves. Introducing the geometrical tensors characterizing the local spatial frames induced by the congruence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-27 Xavier Roy

We develop a new framework for establishing approximate factorization of entropy on arbitrary probability spaces, using a geometric notion known as non-negative sectional curvature. The resulting estimates are equivalent to entropy…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Pietro Caputo , Justin Salez

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

The Raychaudhuri equation and its consequences for chronality are studied in the context of Finsler spacetimes. It is proved that the notable singularity theorems of Lorentzian geometry extend to the Finslerian domain. Indeed, so do the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-25 E. Minguzzi

The Kerr theorem is revisited as part of the twistor program in six dimensions. The relationship between pure spinors and integrable 3-planes is investigated. The real condition for Lorentzian spacetimes is seen to induce a projective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-20 Bruno Carneiro da Cunha

We establish existence and uniqueness results for nonlinear elliptic Dirichlet boundary value problems on n-dimensional time scale domains. Time scales provide a unified framework that encompasses continuous, discrete, and hybrid settings.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Shalmali Bandyopadhyay , F. Ayça Çetinkaya , Tom Cuchta

We translate Penrose's singularity theorem to a Finsler spacetime. To that end, causal concepts in Lorentzian geometry are extended, including definitions and properties of focal points and trapped surfaces, with careful attention paid to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-01 Amir Babak Aazami , Miguel Angel Javaloyes

We propose a formulation of a Lorentzian quantum geometry based on the framework of causal fermion systems. After giving the general definition of causal fermion systems, we deduce space-time as a topological space with an underlying causal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-01-28 Felix Finster , Andreas Grotz

We study scattering rigidity in Lorentzian geometry: recovery of a Lorentzian metric from the scattering relation $\mathcal{S}^\sharp$ known on a lateral boundary. We show that, under a non-conjugacy assumption, every defining function…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Plamen Stefanov

In this paper, we have proved a weighted Laplacian comparison of distance function for manifolds with Bakry-\'Emery curvature bounded from below. Next, we have shown that a gradient $\rho$-Einstein soliton with a bounded integral condition…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Absos Ali Shaikh , Prosenjit Mandal , Chandan Kumar Mondal

The Lott-Sturm-Villani Curvature-Dimension condition provides a synthetic notion for a metric-measure space to have Ricci-curvature bounded from below and dimension bounded from above. We prove that it is enough to verify this condition…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-26 Fabio Cavalletti , Emanuel Milman

In the first part of this thesis, Kerr-Schild metrics and extended Kerr-Schild metrics are analyzed in the context of higher dimensional general relativity. Employing the higher dimensional generalizations of the Newman-Penrose formalism…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-03 Tomáš Málek

Extensions of Huber's Theorem to higher dimensions with $L^\frac{n}{2}$ bounded scalar curvature have been extensively studied over the years. In this paper, we delve into the properties of conformal metrics on a punctured ball with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-08 Yuxiang Li , Zihao Wang

We discuss (arbitrary-dimensional) Lorentzian manifolds and the scalar polynomial curvature invariants constructed from the Riemann tensor and its covariant derivatives. Recently, we have shown that in four dimensions a Lorentzian spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Alan Coley , Sigbjorn Hervik , Nicos Pelavas

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

We present a unified Lorentzian replica-path-integral framework for computing entanglement entropy in fully time-dependent quantum field theories and gravitational systems. Building on this framework, we apply the real-time replica trick to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-21 Anastasios Irakleous