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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

An intrinsic time in Geometrodynamics is obtained with using a scaled Dirac's mapping. By addition of a background metric, one can construct a scalar field. It is suitable to play a role of intrinsic time. Cauchy problem was successfully…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-31 Alexander E. Pavlov

We consider the Cauchy problem and the source problem for normally hyperbolic operators on the Minkowski spacetime, and study the determination of solutions from their integrals along null geodesics. For the Cauchy problem, we give a new…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-13 Yiran Wang

Four-dimensional spacetimes foliated by a two-parameter family of homologous two-surfaces are considered in Einstein's theory of gravity. By combining a 1+(1+2) decomposition, the canonical form of the spacetime metric and a suitable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-09 István Rácz

We prove that, in Minkowski space, if a spacelike, $(n-1)$-convex hypersurface $M$ with constant $\sigma_{n-1}$ curvature has bounded principal curvatures, then $M$ is convex. Moreover, if $M$ is not strictly convex, after an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-14 Changyu Ren , Zhizhang Wang , Ling Xiao

Improving a singularity theorem in General Relativity by Galloway and Ling we show the following (cf.\ Theorem 1): If a globally hyperbolic spacetime $M$ satisfying the null energy condition contains a closed, spacelike Cauchy surface…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-30 Eric Ling , Carl Rossdeutscher , Walter Simon , Roland Steinbauer

We construct globally hyperbolic spacetimes such that each slice $\{t=t_0\}$ of the universal time $t$ is a model space of constant curvature $k(t_0)$ which may not only vary with $t_0\in\mathbb{R}$ but also change its sign. The metric is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-09 Miguel Sánchez

In this work we firstly classify space-like surfaces in Minkowski space $\mathbb E^4_1$, de-Sitter space $\mathbb S^3_1$ and hyperbolic space $\mathbb H^3$ with harmonic Gauss map. Then we give a characterization and classification of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-24 Uğur Dursun , Nurettin Cenk Turgay

The Cauchy slicings for globally hyperbolic spacetimes and their relation with the causal boundary are surveyed and revisited, starting at the seminal conformal boundary constructions by R. Penrose. Our study covers: (1) adaptive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-06 Miguel Sánchez

We consider globally hyperbolic spacetimes with compact Cauchy surfaces in a setting compatible with the presence of a positive cosmological constant. More specifically, for 3+1 dimensional spacetimes which satisfy the null energy condition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-13 Gregory J. Galloway , Eric Ling

In this note we derive a new Minkowski-type inequality for closed convex surfaces in the hyperbolic 3-space. The inequality is obtained by explicitly computing the area of the family of surfaces obtained from the normal flow and then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Jose Natario

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

The aim of this survey is to give an overview on the geometry of Einstein maximal globally hyperbolic 2+1 spacetimes of arbitrary curvature, conatining a complete Cauchy surface of finite type. In particular a specialization to the finite…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Riccardo Benedetti , Francesco Bonsante

We study the isometric spacelike embedding problem in scaled de Sitter space, and obtain Weyl-type estimates and the corresponding closedness in the space of embeddings.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Daniel Ballesteros-Chavez , Wilhelm Klingenberg , Ben Lambert

We study the scalar, conformally invariant wave equation on a four-dimensional Minkowski background in spherical symmetry, using a fully pseudospectral numerical scheme. Thereby, our main interest is in a suitable treatment of spatial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-03 Jörg Frauendiener , Jörg Hennig

Vickers and Wilson (see Ref. 25) have shown global hyperbolicity of the conical spacetime in the sense of well-posedness of the initial value problem for the wave equation in generalized functions. We add the aspect of metric splitting and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-04-22 Guenther Hörmann

In this paper, we establish a Willmore-type inequality for closed hypersurfaces in a complete Riemannian manifold of dimension $n+1$ with ${\rm Ric}\geq-ng$. It extends the classic result of Argostianiani, Fogagnolo, and Mazzieri in [1] to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Xiaoshang Jin , Jiabin Yin

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

The tangent hyperplanes of the "manifolds" of this paper equipped a so-called Minkowski product. It is neither symmetric nor bilinear. We give a method to handing such an object as a locally hypersurface of a generalized space-time model…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-07 Ákos G. Horváth

Extending Aubin's construction of metrics with constant negative scalar curvature, we prove that every $n$-dimensional closed manifold admits a Riemannian metric with constant negative scalar-Weyl curvature, that is $R+t|W|,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-20 Giovanni Catino