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The thick brane model supported by a nonlinear spinor field is constructed. The different cases with the various values of the cosmological constant $\Lambda (< = >) 0$ are investigated. It is shown that regular analytical spinor thick…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-25 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev , Vladimir Folomeev

We discuss properties of a 3-brane in an asymptotic 5-dimensional de-Sitter spacetime. It is found that a Minkowski solution can be obtained without fine-tuning. In the model, the tiny observed positive cosmological constant is interpreted…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Zhe Chang , Shao-Xia Chen , Xin-Bing Huang

In the Minkowski space, we consider a compact, spacelike hypersurface with boundary, which can be written as a graph on a spacelike hyperplane. We prove that, if its $k$-th mean curvature is constant, and its boundary is on the hyperplane…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Shanze Gao

This work tries to find out thick brane solutions in braneworld scenarios described by a real scalar field in the presence of a scalar-kinetic term $F(X,\phi)=X\phi^m$ with a single extra dimension, where $X=\frac12\nabla_M\phi\nabla^M\phi$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Yu-Xiao Liu , Yuan Zhong , Ke Yang

We study the Minkowski formula of conformal Killing-Yano two-forms in a spacetime of constant curvature. We establish the spacetime Alexandrov theorem with a free boundary.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-25 Xiaoxiang Chai

In this paper, we establish some rigidity theorems for space-like hypersurfaces in Minkowski space by using a Weinberger-type approach with P-functions and integral identities. Firstly, for space-like hypersurfaces $M$ represented as graphs…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Jianhua Chen , Haiyun Deng , Haiqin Xie , Jiabin Yin

Minkowski's classical existence theorem provides necessary and sufficient conditions for a Borel measure on the unit sphere of Euclidean space to be the surface area measure of a convex body. The solution is unique up to a translation. We…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Rolf Schneider

The equation of motion of an extended object in spacetime reduces to an ordinary differential equation in the presence of symmetry. By properly defining of the symmetry with notion of cohomogeneity, we discuss the method for classifying all…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-04 Tatsuhiko Koike , Hiroshi Kozaki , Hideki Ishihara

Author of this article created for the first time the method for finding solutions of the Minkowski problem for closed surfaces in Riemannian space.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-09-04 Andrei I. Bodrenko

One of the simplest time-dependent solutions of M theory consists of nine-dimensional Euclidean space times 1+1-dimensional compactified Milne space-time. With a further modding out by Z_2, the space-time represents two orbifold planes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Gustavo Niz , Neil Turok

Using the WKB approximation we analyse the tunnelling of a pulsating string in deformed Minkowski spacetime.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 Sergio Giardino , Victor Rivelles

We study both the direct and the double dimensional reduction of space-like branes of M-theory and point out some peculiarities in the process unlike their time-like counterpart. In particular, we show how starting from SM2 and SM5-brane…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Shibaji Roy

In this paper, we study the anisotropic Minkowski problem. It is a problem of prescribing the anisotropic Gauss-Kronecker curvature for a closed strongly convex hypersurface in Euclidean space as a function on its anisotropic normals in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Chao Xia

We present a conformal field theory -- obtained from a gauged WZW model -- that describes a closed, inhomogeneous expanding and recollapsing universe in $3+1$ dimensions. A possible violation of cosmic censorship is avoided because the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-07 Chiara R. Nappi , Edward Witten

The worldsheet of the string theory, which consisting of 26 free scalar fields in Minkowski space, is two dimensional conformal field theory. If we denote the two dimension conformal field theory by elliptic curve and denote the partition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-19 Jing Zhou , Jialun Ping

We consider static, axisymmetric, thick brane solutions on higher dimensional, spherically symmetric black hole backgrounds. It was found recently [1], that in cases when the thick brane has more than 2 spacelike dimensions, perturbative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 Viktor G. Czinner

The observable universe could be a 1+3-surface (the "brane") embedded in a 1+3+\textit{d}-dimensional spacetime (the "bulk"), with Standard Model particles and fields trapped on the brane while gravity is free to access the bulk. At least…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-18 Roy Maartens , Kazuya Koyama

Spinors for an arbitrary Minkowski space with signature ($t$, $s$) are reassessed in connection with $D$-dimensional free Dirac action. The possibility of writing down kinetic and mass terms for charge-conjugated spinors is discussed in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 M. A. De Andrade

String theoretic resolution of classical spacetime singularities is discussed. Particular emphasis is on the use of brane probes, and the connection [1] of the enhancon phenomenon [2] to the n=2* Pilch-Warner flow spacetime [3]. Some…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Amanda W. Peet

We explicitly construct the states of the 2d free boson on the infinite line with specified asymptotic charges. The Minkowski CFT states derive from (the analytic continuation of) the shrinking limit of Euclidean angular quantization,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-09 Nicholas Agia , Daniel L. Jafferis