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Taking a compact K\"{a}hler manifold as playground, we explore the powerfulness of Hodge index theorem. A main object is the Lorentzian classes on a compact K\"{a}hler manifold, behind which the characterization via Lorentzian polynomials…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Jiajun Hu , Jian Xiao

We present a systematic study of causality theory on Lorentzian manifolds with continuous metrics. Examples are given which show that some standard facts in smooth Lorentzian geometry, such as light-cones being hypersurfaces, are wrong when…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Piotr T. Chruściel , James D. E. Grant

We introduce an analogue of the theory of length spaces into the setting of Lorentzian geometry and causality theory. The r\^ole of the metric is taken over by the time separation function, in terms of which all basic notions are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-07 Michael Kunzinger , Clemens Sämann

We examine implications of angles having their own dimension, in the same sense as do lengths, masses, {\it etc.} The conventional practice in scientific applications involving trigonometric or exponential functions of angles is to assume…

General Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Peter J. Mohr , Eric Shirley , William D. Phillips , Michael Trott

We introduce several new notions of (sectional) curvature bounds for Lorentzian pre-length spaces: On the one hand, we provide convexity/concavity conditions for the (modified) time separation function, and, on the other hand, we study…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Tobias Beran , Michael Kunzinger , Felix Rott

The main properties of indefinite Kac-Moody and Borcherds algebras, considered in a unified way as Lorentzian algebras, are reviewed. The connection with the conformal field theory of the vertex operator construction is discussed. By the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 V. Marotta , A. Sciarrino

Lorentzian frames may belong to one of the 199 causal classes. Of these numerous causal classes, people are essentially aware only of two of them. Nevertheless, other causal classes are present in some well-known solutions, or present a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Juan Antonio Morales Lladosa

The gravitational deflection of light is a critical test of modified theories of gravity. A few years ago, Gibbons and Werner introduced a definition of the deflection angle based on the Gauss-Bonnet theorem. In more recent years, Arakida…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-12 Flavio C. Sánchez , Armando A. Roque , Benito Rodríguez , Javier Chagoya

The equivalence principle postulates a frame. This implies globally special and locally general relativity. It is proposed here that spacetime emerges from the gauge potential of translations, whilst the Lorenz symmetry is gauged into the…

General Physics · Physics 2015-11-06 Tomi S. Koivisto

The theory of noncommutative geometry provides an interesting mathematical background for developing new physical models. In particular, it allows one to describe the classical Standard Model coupled to Euclidean gravity. However,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-05 Nicolas Franco , Michał Eckstein

In Lorentz-Finsler geometry it is natural to define the Finsler Lagrangian over a cone (Asanov's approach) or over the whole slit tangent bundle (Beem's approach). In the former case one might want to add differentiability conditions at the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-28 E. Minguzzi

A lattice gauge theory with an action polynomial in independent field variables is considered. The link variables are described by unconstrained complex matrices instead of unitary ones. A mechanism which permits to switch off in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Franke , S. A. Paston , E. V. Prokhvatilov

The main result of this paper is that a Lorentzian manifold is locally conformally equivalent to a manifold with recurrent lightlike vector field and totally isotropic Ricci tensor if and only if its conformal tractor holonomy admits a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-13 Thomas Leistner

The universality of the Laplace-Runge-Lenz symmetry in all rotationally symmetric systems is discussed. The independence of the symmetry on the type of interaction is proven using only the most generic properties of the Poisson brackets.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Uri Ben-Ya'acov

The concept of soliton, in its most general version, allows us to find canonical or distinguished elements on any set provided with an equivalence relation and an `optimal' tangent direction at each point. We study in this paper solitons on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Jorge Lauret

We consider a Lorentzian metric in $\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{R}^n$. We show that if we know the lengths of the space-time geodesics starting at $(0,y,\eta)$ when $t=0$, then we can recover the metric at $y$. We prove the rigidity of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Gregory Eskin

In this paper, we study the weak gravitational lensing in the spacetime of rotating regular black hole geometries such as Ayon-Beato-Garc\'ia (ABG), Bardeen, and Hayward black holes. We calculate the deflection angle of light using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-12 Kimet Jusufi , Ali Övgün , Joel Saavedra , P. A. González , Yerko Vásquez

Trajectories of light rays in a static spacetime are described by unparametrised geodesics of the Riemannian optical metric associated with the Lorentzian spacetime metric. We investigate the uniqueness of this structure and demonstrate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-12 Stephen Casey , Maciej Dunajski , Gary Gibbons , Claude Warnick

We present recent developments concerning Lorentzian geometry in algebras of generalized functions. These have, in particular, raised a new interest in refined regularity theory for the wave equation on singular space-times.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-11-14 James D. E. Grant , Eberhard Mayerhofer

The vector form of a Lorentz transformation which is separated with time and space parts is studied. It is necessary to introduce a new definition of the relative velocity in this transformation, which plays an important role for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Yongkyu Ko