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The purpose in this paper is to study the maximal hypersurfaces with multiple light-cones in Lorentz-Minkowski space by considering the weak solutions to the mean curvature equation with multiple Dirac masses. Such solutions are constructed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Huyuan Chen , Ying Wang , Feng Zhou

Calabi's Bernstein-type theorem asserts that a zero mean curvature entire graph in Lorentz-Minkowski space $\boldsymbol L^3$ which admits only space-like points is a space-like plane. Using the fluid mechanical duality between minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Shintaro Akamine , Masaaki Umehara , Kotaro Yamada

Two special neutral hypersurfaces $\mathcal{L}_{\pm}$ in the light cone $L(\bigwedge^2 E^4_1 )$ studied in [1], [3] are $SO(3,1)$-orbits. In this paper, we see that each $SO(3,1)$-orbit in $L(\bigwedge^2 E^4_1 )$ is either a neutral…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Naoya Ando

The lightlike geometry of codimension two spacelike submanifolds in Lorentz-Minkowski space has been developed in [Izumiya, S. and Romero Fuster, M. C. Selecta Mathematica (NS), 13 23--55 (2007)] which is a natural Lorentzian analogue of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-02 Atsufumi Honda , Shyuichi Izumiya

Let f:\Sigma_1 --> \Sigma_2 be an area preserving diffeomorphism between compact Riemann surfaces of constant curvature. The graph of f can be viewed as a Lagrangian submanifold in \Sigma_1\times \Sigma_2. This article discusses a canonical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mu-Tao Wang

There are three types of hypersurfaces in a pseudoconformal space C^n_1 of Lorentzian signature: spacelike, timelike, and lightlike. These three types of hypersurfaces are considered in parallel. Spacelike hypersurfaces are endowed with a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-31 Maks A. Akivis , Vladislav V. Goldberg

The authors study the geometry of lightlike hypersurfaces on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds $(M, g)$ of Lorentzian signature. Such hypersurfaces are of interest in general relativity since they can be models of different types of physical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Maks A. Akivis , Vladislav V. Goldberg

Consider a surface $S$ immersed in the Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space $\boldsymbol R^3_1$. A complete light-like line in $\boldsymbol R^3_1$ is called an entire null line on the surface $S$ in $\boldsymbol R^3_1$ if it lies on $S$ and consists…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Shintaro Akamine , Masaaki Umehara , Kotaro Yamada

Given a positive function $F$ on $S^n$ which satisfies a convexity condition, we define the $r$-th anisotropic mean curvature function $H^F_r$ for hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ which is a generalization of the usual $r$-th mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-01-24 Yijun He , Haizhong Li

We consider the long-time behaviour of the mean curvature flow of spacelike hypersurfaces in the Lorentzian product manifold $M\times\mathbb{R}$, where $M$ is asymptotically flat. If the initial hypersurface $F_0\subset M\times\mathbb{R}$…

We study codimension-two spacelike submanifolds in Lorentzian spacetimes that admit umbilical lightlike normal directions. We show that such submanifolds are subject to strong geometric and topological constraints, establishing explicit…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Juan S. Gómez

In this paper, we establish some rigidity theorems for space-like hypersurfaces in Minkowski space by using a Weinberger-type approach with P-functions and integral identities. Firstly, for space-like hypersurfaces $M$ represented as graphs…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Jianhua Chen , Haiyun Deng , Haiqin Xie , Jiabin Yin

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

Existence and uniqueness in ${\Bbb R}^{n,1}$ of entire spacelike hypersurfaces contained in the future of the origin $O$ and asymptotic to the light-cone, with scalar curvature prescribed at their generic point $M$ as a negative function of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-07-10 Pierre Bayard , Philippe Delanoë

The modelling of light-like signals in General Relativity taking the form of impulsive gravitational waves and light-like shells of matter is examined. Systematic deductions from the Bianchi identities are made. These are based upon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Barrabès , P. A. Hogan

We study lightlikeness preserving mappings from the $4$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime $\mathcal{M}_4$ to itself under no additional regularity assumptions like continuity, surjectivity, or injectivity. We prove that such a mapping $\phi$…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Michiya Mori , Peter Šemrl

This paper continues the study of a class of compact convex hypersurfaces in Euclidean space $R^{n+1}, ~n \geq 1$, which are boundaries of compact convex bodies obtained by taking the intersection of (solid) confocal paraboloids of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Oliker

We prove that, in Minkowski space, if a spacelike, $(n-1)$-convex hypersurface $M$ with constant $\sigma_{n-1}$ curvature has bounded principal curvatures, then $M$ is convex. Moreover, if $M$ is not strictly convex, after an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-14 Changyu Ren , Zhizhang Wang , Ling Xiao

In this paper, we consider the evolution of spacelike graphic hypersurfaces defined over a convex piece of hyperbolic plane $\mathscr{H}^{n}(1)$, of center at origin and radius $1$, in the $(n+1)$-dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-09 Ya Gao , Jing Mao

In this paper we study lightlike surfaces of Minkowski 3- space such that they have degenerate or non-degenerate planar normal sections. We first show that every lightlike surface of Minkowski $3-$ space has degenerate planar normal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-25 Feyza Esra Erdogan , Bayram Sahin , Rifat Gunes