English
Related papers

Related papers: Null Geometry and the Penrose Conjecture

200 papers

Motivated by a kind of Penrose correspondence, we investigate the space of hyperplane sections of Segre quartic surfaces which have an ordinary cusp. We show that the space of such hyperplane sections is empty for two kinds of Segre…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Nobuhiro Honda , Ayato Minagawa

The Null Surface Formulation of General Relativity is developed for 2+1 dimensional gravity. The geometrical meaning of the metricity condition is analyzed and two approaches to the derivation of the field equations are presented. One…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Diego M. Forni , Mirta Iriondo , Carlos N. Kozameh

A new simple way to prove the Frobenius conjecture on the dimensions of real algebras without zero divisors is given.

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 K. E. Feldman

In this paper, we proved the Normal Scalar Curvature Conjecture and the Bottcher-Wenzel Conjecture. We also established some new pinching theorems for minimal submanifolds in spheres.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-06 Zhiqin Lu

The Penrose inequality has so far been proven in cases of spherical symmetry and in cases of zero extrinsic curvature. The next simplest case worth exploring would be non-spherical, non-rotating black holes with non-zero extrinsic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-29 Benjamin K. Tippett

We prove the Riemannian Penrose conjecture, an important case of a conjecture made by Roger Penrose in 1973, by defining a new flow of metrics. This flow of metrics stays inside the class of asymptotically flat Riemannian 3-manifolds with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hubert L. Bray

We investigate axially symmetric asymptotically flat vacuum self-gravitating system. A class of initial data with apparent horizon was numerically constructed. The examined solutions satisfy the Penrose inequality. The prior analysis of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Janusz Karkowski , Piotr Koc , Zdobyslaw Swierczynski

The theory of Force-Free Electrodynamics (FFE) provides a robust framework for modeling the magnetospheres of compact objects, where the electromagnetic field's energy density dominates the surrounding plasma. Central to this theory is the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-17 Govind Menon , Rakshak Adhikari

We introduce and study the notion of null manifold. This is a smooth manifold ${\mathcal N}$ endowed with a degenerate metric $\gamma$ with one-dimensional radical at every point. We also define the notion of ruled null manifold, which is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-13 Marc Mars

Solving a long-standing open question in convex geometry, we will show that typical convex surfaces contain points of infinite curvature in all tangent directions. To prove this, we use an easy curvature definition imitating the idea of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-13 Karim Adiprasito

In this paper we prove the Knop conjecture asserting that two smooth affine spherical varieties with the same weight monoids are equivariantly isomorphic. We also state and prove a uniqueness property for not necessarily smooth affine…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-03 Ivan V. Losev

Marginally Outer Trapped Surfaces (MOTS) in spacetimes are well-known to indicate the existence of black holes. Using flow techniques, we prove that a neighbourhood of a stable MOTS in a null cone may be foliated by hypersurfaces of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Ben Lambert , Julian Scheuer

A fuzzy version of the ordinary round 2-sphere has been constructed with an invariant curvature. We here consider linear connections on arbitrary fuzzy surfaces of genus zero. We shall find as before that they are more or less rigidly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Madore

We study the Penrose transform for the `quaternionic objects' whose twistor spaces are complex manifolds endowed with locally complete families of embedded Riemann spheres with positive normal bundles.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-26 Radu Pantilie

The slope conjecture proposed by Garoufalidis asserts that the Jones slopes given by the sequence of degrees of the colored Jones polynomials are boundary slopes. We verify the slope conjecture for graph knots, i.e. knots whose Gromov…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-07-06 Kimihiko Motegi , Toshie Takata

This paper proposes a new notion of smoothness of algebras, termed differential smoothness, that combines the existence of a top form in a differential calculus over an algebra together with a strong version of the Poincar\'e duality…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2015-05-07 Tomasz Brzeziński , Andrzej Sitarz

We prove the $l^2$ Decoupling Conjecture for compact hypersurfaces with positive definite second fundamental form and also for the cone. This has a wide range of important consequences. One of them is the validity of the Discrete…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-07-28 Jean Bourgain , Ciprian Demeter

In the paper two important theorems about complete affine spheres are generalized to the case of statistical structures on abstract manifolds. The assumption about constant sectional curvature is replaced by the assumption that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-22 Barbara Opozda

We consider versions of the Penrose singularity theorem and the Hawking horizon topology theorem in weighted spacetimes that contain weighted versions of trapped surfaces, for arbitrary spacetime dimension and synthetic dimension. We find…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-03 Eric Ling , Argam Ohanyan , Eric Woolgar

In this paper we prove a rigidity result for the equality case of the Penrose inequality on $3$-dimensional asymptotically flat manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature and corners. Our result also has deep connections with the equality…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Yuguang Shi , Wenlong Wang , Haobin Yu