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The folk questions in Lorentzian Geometry, which concerns the smoothness of time functions and slicings by Cauchy hypersurfaces, are solved by giving simple proofs of: (a) any globally hyperbolic spacetime $(M,g)$ admits a smooth time…

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A global existence theorem, with respect to a geometrically defined time, is shown for Gowdy symmetric globally hyperbolic solutions of the Einstein-Vlasov system for arbitrary (in size) initial data. The spacetimes being studied contain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Hakan Andreasson

In the first part of this article, we will prove an existence-uniqueness result for generalized solutions of a mixed problem for linear hyperbolic system in the Colombeau algebra. In the second part, we apply this result to a wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-14 Lalla Saadia Chadli , Said Melliani , Aziz Moujahid

We study a class of time functions called uniform temporal functions in the general context of globally hyperbolic closed cone fields. We prove some existence results for uniform temporal functions, and prove the density of uniform temporal…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-03-31 Patrick Bernard , Stefan Suhr

Using the quasi-Maxwell formalism, we derive the necessary and sufficient conditions for the matching of two stationary spacetimes along a stationary timelike hypersurface, expressed in terms of the gravitational and gravitomagnetic fields…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-09 Filipe C. Mena , Jose Natario

We exactly solve the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for the closed homogeneous and isotropic quantum cosmology in the presence of a conformally coupled scalar field and in the context of the generalized uncertainty principle. This form of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-12 Pouria Pedram

This paper is devoted to strictly hyperbolic systems and equations with non-smooth coefficients. Below a certain level of smoothness, distributional solutions may fail to exist. We construct generalised solutions in the Colombeau algebra of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-08-12 Claudia Garetto , Michael Oberguggenberger

Sufficient conditions for the well-posedness of the initial value problem for the scalar wave equation are obtained in space-times with hypersurface singularities

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-25 J. A. Vickers , J. P. Wilson

In this paper, we prove the short-time existence of hyperbolic inverse (mean) curvature flow (with or without the specified forcing term) under the assumption that the initial compact smooth hypersurface of $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-16 Zhe Zhou , Chuan-Xi Wu , Jing Mao

We prove that local and global parabolic BMO spaces are equal thus extending the classical result of Reimann and Rychener. Moreover, we show that functions in parabolic BMO are exponentially integrable in a general class of space-time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-13 Olli Saari

We prove that globally hyperbolic compact anti-de Sitter (2+1)-spacetimes with strictly convex spacelike boundary that is either smooth or polyhedral and whose holonomy is close to Fuchsian are determined by the induced metric on the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Roman Prosanov , Jean-Marc Schlenker

In this paper, we investigate two hyperbolic flows obtained by adding forcing terms in direction of the position vector to the hyperbolic mean curvature flows in \cite{klw,hdl}. For the first hyperbolic flow, as in \cite{klw}, by using…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-11-26 Jing Mao

In this paper, we derive curvature estimates for strongly stable hypersurfaces with constant mean curvature immersed in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, which show that the locally controlled volume growth yields a globally controlled volume growth if…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-12-17 Jinpeng Lu

We develop a rigorous method to parametrize complex structures for Klein-Gordon theory in globally hyperbolic spacetimes that satisfy a completeness condition. The complex structures are conserved under time-evolution and implement unitary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Albert Much , Robert Oeckl

We consider cosmological solutions to general relativity with a single barotropic fluid, where the pressure is a general function of the density, $p = f(\rho)$. We derive conditions for static and oscillating solutions and provide examples,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-31 John Kehayias , Robert J. Scherrer

We give a short proof of the existence of a small piece of null infinity for $(3+1)$-dimensional spacetimes evolving from asymptotically flat initial data as solutions of the Einstein vacuum equations. We introduce a modification of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Peter Hintz

We provide sharp stability estimates for the Alexandrov Soap Bubble Theorem in the hyperbolic space. The closeness to a single sphere is quantified in terms of the dimension, the measure of the hypersurface and the radius of the touching…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Giulio Ciraolo , Luigi Vezzoni

In this paper, we consider the contracting curvature flow of smooth closed surfaces in $3$-dimensional hyperbolic space and in $3$-dimensional sphere. In the hyperbolic case, we show that if the initial surface $M_0$ has positive scalar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Yingxiang Hu , Haizhong Li , Yong Wei , Tailong Zhou

We consider the evolution of a flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Universe, filled with a causal bulk viscous cosmological fluid, in the presence of variable gravitational and cosmological constants. The basic equation for the Hubble…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. K. Mak , J. A. Belinchon , T. Harko

We provide a generalization of global hyperbolicity in pseudo-Riemannian spaces of signature (p, q) for p ___ q ___ 2. We then prove the compactness of causal diamonds in globally hyperbolic spaces and deduce the existence of solutions to a…

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