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We classify maximal totally geodesic submanifolds in exceptional symmetric spaces up to isometry. Moreover, we introduce an invariant for certain totally geodesic embeddings of semisimple symmetric spaces, which we call the Dynkin index. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-24 Andreas Kollross , Alberto Rodríguez-Vázquez

In this paper we establish conditions on the length of the traceless part of the second fundamental form of a complete constant mean curvature hypersurface immersed in a space of constant sectional curvature in order to show that it is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-07 A. C. Bezerra , F. Manfio

We prove a semisimplicity result for the boundary, in the corresponding Deligne-Mumford compactification, of a totally geodesic subvariety of a moduli space of Riemann surfaces. At the level of Teichm\"uller space, this semisimplicity…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Francisco Arana-Herrera , Alex Wright

The isometric immersion of two-dimensional Riemannian manifolds or surfaces in the three-dimensional Euclidean space is a fundamental problem in differential geometry. When the Gauss curvature is negative, the isometric immersion problem is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-27 Wentao Cao , Feimin Huang , Dehua Wang

N. V. Efimov \cite{Ef1} proved that there is no complete, smooth surface in $\R^3$ with uniformly negative curvature. We extend this to isometric immersions in a 3-manifold with pinched curvature: if $M^3$ has sectional curvature between…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jean-Marc Schlenker

For n>3 we study spaces obtained from finite volume complete real hyperbolic n-manifolds by removing a compact totally geodesic submanifold of codimension two. We prove that their fundamental groups are relative hyperbolic, co-Hopf,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-08-31 Igor Belegradek

An exact class of solutions of the 5D vacuum Einstein field equations (EFEs) is obtained. The metric coefficients are found to be non-separable functions of time and the extra coordinate $l$ and the induced metric on $l$ = constant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Takao Fukui , Sanjeev S. Seahra , Paul S. Wesson

This article derives closed-form parametric formulas for the Minkowski sums of convex bodies in d-dimensional Euclidean space with boundaries that are smooth and have all positive sectional curvatures at every point. Under these conditions,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-04 Sipu Ruan , Gregory S. Chirikjian

We prove that a closed negatively curved analytic Riemannian manifold that contains infinitely many totally geodesic hypersurfaces is isometric to an arithmetic hyperbolic manifold. Equivalently, any closed analytic Riemannian manifold with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Simion Filip , David Fisher , Ben Lowe

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

We prove global hyperbolicity of spacetimes under generic regularity conditions on the metric. We then show that these spacetimes are timelike and null geodesically complete if the gradient of the lapse and the extrinsic curvature $K$ are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat , Spiros Cotsakis

We use the weighted Hsiung-Minkowski integral formulas and Brendle's inequality to show new rigidity results. First, we prove Alexandrov type results for closed embedded hypersurfaces with radially symmetric higher order mean curvature in a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-20 Kwok-Kun Kwong , Hojoo Lee , Juncheol Pyo

We demonstrate analytically and numerically the existence of geodesically complete singularities in quintessence and scalar tensor quintessence models with scalar field potential of the form $V(\phi)\sim \vert \phi\vert^n$ with $0<n<1$. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-18 A. Lymperis , L. Perivolaropoulos , S. Lola

Special relativity corresponds to hyperbolic geometry at constant velocity while the so-called general relativity corresponds to hyperbolic geometry of uniformly accelerated systems. Generalized expressions for angular momentum, centrifugal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-04-11 B. H. Lavenda

We study the geometry of null hypersurfaces in indefinite complex contact manifolds. We prove several classification results for a variety of well-known null hypersurfaces, including the totally umbilic, totally screen umbilic, and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-21 Samuel Ssekajja

In this paper, we prove a rigidity theorem for Poincar\'e-Einstein manifolds whose conformal infinity is a flat Euclidean space. The proof relies on analyzing the propagation of curvature tensors over the level sets of an adapted boundary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Sanghoon Lee , Fang Wang

The celebrated Nash Embedding Theorem asserts that every closed Riemannian manifold can be isometrically embedded into a sufficiently high-dimensional Euclidean space. In this paper, we prove an analogous result in the conformally compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Marco Usula

We prove some Bernstein theorems for entire space-like submanifolds in pseudo-Euclidean spaces and, as a corollary, we obtain a new proof of the Calabi-Pogorelov theorem on global solutions of Monge-Ampere equations.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Juergen Jost , Yuan-Long Xin

Given a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary, we prove that the space of embedded, which may be improper, free boundary minimal hypersurfaces with uniform area and Morse index upper bound is compact in the sense of smoothly graphical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Qiang Guang , Zhichao Wang , Xin Zhou

We investigate ruled surfaces in 3d Riemannian manifolds, i.e., surfaces foliated by geodesics. In 3d space forms, we find the striction curve, distribution parameter, and the first and second fundamental forms, from which we obtain the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Luiz C. B. da Silva , José D. da Silva