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We describe the compact Lorentzian $3$-manifolds admitting a parallel lightlike vector field. The classification of compact Lorentzian $3$-manifolds admitting non-isometric affine diffeomorphisms follows, together with the complete…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Charles Boubel , Pierre Mounoud

We classify complete orientable hypersurfaces of constant isotropic curvature in space forms. We show that such a hypersurface has constant mean curvature only if it is an isoparametric hypersurface, and that it is minimal if and only if it…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-18 H. A. Gururaja , Niteesh Kumar

In this work we introduce the notion of constant angle null hypersurface of a Lorentzian manifold with respect to a given ambient vector field. We analyze the case in which the vector field is closed and conformal, thus finding that such…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Samuel Chable-Naal , Matias Navarro , Didier A Solis

We prove the existence of closed hypersurfaces of prescribed scalar curvature in globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds provided there are barriers.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-26 Christian Enz

The main purpose of this paper is to give fundamental properties of real lightlike hypersurfaces of paraquaternionic manifolds and to prove the non-existence of real lightlike hypersurfaces in paraquaternionic space forms under some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Gabriel Eduard Vilcu

We develop area and volume comparison theorems for the evolution of spacelike, acausal, causally complete hypersurfaces in Lorentzian manifolds, where one has a lower bound on the Ricci tensor along timelike curves, and an upper bound on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-19 Jan-Hendrik Treude , James D. E. Grant

In this paper, we initiate the study of lightlike hypersurfaces of an $(\epsilon)$-almost paracontact metric manifold which are tangent to the structure vector field. In particular, we give definitions of invariant lightlike hypersurfaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-23 Selcen Yüksel Perktaş , Erol Kılıç , Mukut Mani Tripathi

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

This paper looks at the splitting problem for globally hyperbolic spacetimes with timelike Ricci curvature bounded below containing a (spacelike, acausal, future causally complete) hypersurface with mean curvature bounded from above. For…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-19 Melanie Graf

In our article, we introduce and study lightlike hypersurfaces of a metallic semi-Riemannian manifold. We examine some geometric properties of invariant lightlike hypersurfaces. We show that the induced structure on an invariant lightlike…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-05 Bilal Eftal Acet

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 study the motion of an $n$-dimensional closed spacelike hypersurface in a Lorentzian manifold in the direction of its past directed normal vector, where the speed equals a positive power $p$ of the mean curvature. We prove that for any…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Guanghan Li , Isabel M. C. Salavessa

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

In this paper, we shall prove that space-like surfaces with bounded mean curvature functions in real analytic Lorentzian 3-manifolds can change their causality to time-like surfaces only if the mean curvature functions tend to zero.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-12 Atsufumi Honda , Miyuki Koiso , Masatoshi Kokubu , Masaaki Umehara , Kotaro Yamada

Lightlike Cartan geometries are introduced as Cartan geometries modelled on the future lightlike cone in Lorentz-Minkowski spacetime. Then, we provide an approach to the study of lightlike manifolds from this point of view. It is stated…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Francisco J. Palomo

We consider geodesic flows between hypersurfaces in $\R^n$. However, rather than consider using geodesics in $\R^n$, which are straight lines, we consider an induced flow using geodesics between the tangent spaces of the hypersurfaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-28 James Damon

We prove that a four-dimensional Lorentzian manifold that is curvature homogeneous of order 3, or $\CH_3$ for short, is necessarily locally homogeneous. We also exhibit and classify four-dimensional Lorentzian, $\CH_2$ manifolds that are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-11-27 R. Milson , N. Pelavas

Restrictions are obtained on the topology of a compact divergence-free null hypersurface in a four-dimensional Lorentzian manifold whose Ricci tensor is zero or satisfies some weaker conditions. This is done by showing that each null…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Alan D. Rendall

In the present paper, we show that the geometry of a screen integrable null hypersurface can be generated from an isometric immersion of a leaf of its screen distribution into the ambient space. We prove, under certain geometric conditions,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-14 Samuel Ssekajja

In this paper we will show that a Lagrangian, Lorentzian surface $M^2_1$ in a complex pseudo space form $\widetilde M^2_1 (4c)$ is pseudo-isotropic if and only if $M$ is minimal. Next we will obtain a complete classification of all…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-21 Alfonso Carriazo , Verónica Martín-Molina , Luc Vrancken