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Exceptional points in non-Hermitian systems have recently been shown to possess nontrivial topological properties, and to give rise to many exotic physical phenomena. However, most studies thus far have focused on isolated exceptional…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-21 Hengyun Zhou , Jong Yeon Lee , Shang Liu , Bo Zhen

McVittie spacetimes represent an embedding of the Schwarzschild field in isotropic cosmological backgrounds. Depending on the scale factor of the background, the resulting spacetime may contain black and white hole horizons, as well as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Brien C. Nolan

Some future global properties of cosmological solutions for the Einstein-Vlasov-Maxwell system with surface symmetry are presented. Global existence is proved, the homogeneous spacetimes are future complete for causal trajectories, and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sophonie Blaise Tchapnda

In this paper, we are concerned with light-like extremal surfaces in curved spacetimes. It is interesting to find that under a diffeomorphic transformation of variables, the light-like extremal surfaces can be described by a system of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Shou-Jun Huang , Chun-Lei He

The sonic point/photon surface correspondence is thoroughly investigated in a general setting. First, we investigate a sonic point of a transonic steady perfect fluid flow in a general stationary spacetime, particularly focusing on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-09 Masataka Tsuchiya , Chul-Moon Yoo , Yasutaka Koga , Tomohiro Harada

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

We show that any star-shaped convex hypersurface with constant Weingarten curvature in the deSitter-Schwarzschild manifold is a sphere of symmetry. Moreover, we study an isoperimetric problem for bounded domains in the doubled Schwarzschild…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-06-24 Simon Brendle , Michael Eichmair

In recent years it has been recognized that the hyperbolic numbers (an extension of complex numbers, defined as z=x+h*y with h*h=1 and x,y real numbers) can be associated to space-time geometry as stated by the Lorentz transformations of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Francesco Catoni , Roberto Cannata , Vincenzo Catoni , Paolo Zampetti

We consider $n+1$ dimensional smooth Riemannian and Lorentzian spaces satisfying Einstein's equations. The base manifold is assumed to be smoothly foliated by a one-parameter family of hypersurfaces. In both cases---likewise it is usually…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 István Rácz

We study space-time symmetries in scalar quantum field theory (including interacting theories) on static space-times. We first consider Euclidean quantum field theory on a static Riemannian manifold, and show that the isometry group is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Arthur Jaffe , Gordon Ritter

We prove that a spacelike spherical symmetric constant mean curvature (SSCMC) surface and a general spacelike constant mean curvature (CMC) surface with certain boundary condition at the future null-infinity in Schwarzschild spacetime are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-03 Caiyan Li , Yuguang Shi , Luen-Fai Tam

In this paper, we classify the Einstein hypersurfaces of $\mathbb{S}^n \times \mathbb{R}$ and $\mathbb{H}^n \times \mathbb{R}$. We use the characterization of the hypersurfaces of $\mathbb{S}^n \times \mathbb{R}$ and $\mathbb{H}^n \times…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-16 Benedito Leandro , Romildo Pina , João Paulo dos Santos

We consider general relativity with cosmological constant minimally coupled to electromagnetic field and assume that four-dimensional space-time manifold is the warped product of two surfaces with Lorentzian and Euclidean signature metrics.…

General Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 D. E. Afanasev , M. O. Katanaev

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

For a regular surface in Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^3$, umbilic points are precisely the points where the Gauss and mean curvatures $K$ and $H$ satisfy $H^2=K$; moreover, it is well-known that the only totally umbilic surfaces in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-11-09 Jeanne N. Clelland

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 show that to every maximal surface with conelike singularities in Lorentz-Minkowski space $\mathbb{L}^3$ that can be locally represented as the graph of a smooth function, there exists a corresponding timelike minimal surface in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Aryaman Patel

We obtain a two-parameter set of solutions, which represents a spherically symmetric space-time with a superposition of a neutral fluid and an electric field. The electromagnetic four-potential of this Einstein-Maxwell space-time is taken…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Mauricio Cataldo , Patricio Salgado

A timelike minimal surface in Minkowski 3-space is a surface whose induced metric is Lorentzian and with vanishing mean curvature. Such surfaces have many kinds of singularities. In this paper, we prove existence and non-existence theorems…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-02 Shintaro Akamine

Chernov-Nemirovski observed that the existence of a globally hyperbolic Lorentzian metric on a (3 + 1)-spacetime pins down a smooth structure on the underlying 4-manifold. In this paper, we point out that the diffeomorphism type of a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Rafael Torres