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In this paper, we consider real hypersurfaces $M$ in $\Bbb C^3$ (or more generally, 5-dimensional CR manifolds of hypersurface type) at uniformly Levi degenerate points, i.e. Levi degenerate points such that the rank of the Levi form is…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Peter Ebenfelt

A connected regular surface in Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space is called a mixed type surface if the spacelike, timelike and lightlike point sets are all non-empty. Lightlike points on mixed type surfaces may be regarded as singular points of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-07 Atsufumi Honda

Metasurfaces represent a powerful paradigm of optical engineering that enables one to control the flow of light across material interfaces. We report on a discovery that metallic metasurfaces of a certain type respond differently to…

Optics · Physics 2019-11-12 T. Frank , O. Buchnev , T. Cookson , M. Kaczmarek , P. Lagoudakis , V. A. Fedotov

In this note a proof is given for global existence and uniqueness of minimal surfaces of Lorentzian type from a cylinder into globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds for given initial values up to the first derivatives.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-20 Olaf Müller

We consider 4-dimensional spacetime manifolds that are piecewise Lorentzian, where the Lorentzian components of the manifold are separated by codimension-one planes (spacelike or timelike) on which the metric is degenerate. Such manifolds…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-14 Bob Holdom

Given a Lorentzian manifold, the light ray transform of a function is its integrals along null geodesics. This paper is concerned with the injectivity of the light ray transform on functions and tensors, up to the natural gauge for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Ali Feizmohammadi , Joonas Ilmavirta , Lauri Oksanen

The authors study singular points of lightlike hypersurfaces of the de Sitter space S^{n+1}_1 and the geometry of hypersurfaces and use them for construction of an invariant normalization and an invariant affine connection of lightlike…

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

An important, if relatively less well known aspect of the singularity theorems in Lorentzian Geometry is to understand how their conclusions fare upon weakening or suppression of one or more of their hypotheses. Then, theorems with modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-20 I. P. Costa e Silva , J. L. Flores

We prove that if S is a time-oriented null hypersurface of a Lorentzian n-manifold (M, g), the causal world-lines, which intersect transversally S and are time-oriented in a compatible way, cross the hypersurface all in the same direction,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-24 Cristina Giannotti , Andrea Spiro

Hypersurfaces of manifolds of constant nonzero sectional curvature are classificated according their restricted homogeneous holonomy groups.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-23 Ognian Kassabov

We introduce a class of null hypersurfaces of a semi-Riemannian manifold, namely, screen quasi-conformal hypersurfaces, whose geometry may be studied through the geometry of its screen distribution. In particular, this notion allows us to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-10 Matias Navarro , Oscar Palmas , Didier Solis

A Lorentz surface in the four-dimensional pseudo-Euclidean space with neutral metric is called quasi-minimal if its mean curvature vector is lightlike at each point. In the present paper we obtain the complete classification of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-15 Velichka Milousheva , Nurettin Cenk Turgay

In this paper we construct examples of $CR$ deformations of Lorentzian hypersurfaces which are $CR$ embeddable at all points outside an arbitrarily small compact set whose interior contains a point where $CR$ embeddablity is not possible.

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2018-07-26 Judith Brinkschulte , C. Denson Hill

We point out that the geometry of connected totally geodesic compact null hypersurfaces in Lorentzian manifolds is only slightly more specialized than that of Riemannian flows over compact manifolds, the latter mathematical theory having…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-01 R. A. Hounnonkpe , E. Minguzzi

Hypersurfaces are studied and classified under multiple additional assumptions in any Riemannian homogeneous space $(\mathbb{C}P^3, g_a)$, including nearly K\"ahler $\mathbb{C}P^3$. Notably, all extrinsically homogeneous hypersurfaces are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Michaël Liefsoens

Calabi and Cheng-Yau's Bernstein-type theorem asserts that an entire zero mean curvature graph in Lorentz-Minkowski $(n+1)$-space $\boldsymbol R^{n+1}_1$ which admits only space-like points is a hyperplane. Recently, the third and fourth…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Shintaro Akamine , Atsufumi Honda , Masaaki Umehara , Kotaro Yamada

In this note, we show that a lightlike hypersurface of an indefinite Sasakian manifold, which is tangent to structure vector field is not locally symmetric, semi-symmetric or semi-parallel.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-05 Samuel Ssekajja

In this work we study the geometric properties of spacelike foliations by hypersurfaces on a Lorentz manifold. We find an equation that relates the foliation with the ambient manifold and apply it to investigate conditions for the leaves…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Rosa Maria dos Santos Barreiro Chaves , Euripedes Carvalho da Silva

In [8] Gerhardt proves longtime existence for the inverse mean curvature flow in globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds with compact Cauchy hypersurface, which satisfy three main structural assumptions: a strong volume decay condition, a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-11-22 Heiko Kröner

The aim of this work is the study of geodesics on Lorentzian homogeneous spaces of the form $M=G/\Lambda$, where $G$ is a solvable Lie group endowed with a bi-invariant Lorentzian metric and $\Lambda < G$ is a cocompact lattice. Conditions…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Pablo Montenegro , Gabriela P. Ovando