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Submanifolds in Lorentz-Minkowski space are investigated from various mathematical viewpoints and are of interest also in relativity theory. We define the hyperbolic surface and the de Sitter surface of a curve in the spacelike hypersurface…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Shyuichi Izumiya , Ana Claudia Nabarro , Andrea de Jesus Sacramento

We prove some theorems characterizing the global properties of static, spherically symmetric configurations of a self-gravitating real scalar field in general relativity (GR) in various dimensions, with an arbitrary potential $V$, not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 K. A. Bronnikov , G. N. Shikin

Using the principle of least action, the motion equations for a singular hypersurface of arbitrary type in quadratic gravity are derived. Equations containing the "external pressure" and the "external flow" components of the surface…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-02 V. A. Berezin , I. D. Ivanova

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

We construct 2-surfaces of prescribed mean curvature in 3-manifolds carrying asymptotically flat initial data for an isolated gravitating sysqtem with rather general decay conditions. The surfaces in question form a regular foliation of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Jan Metzger

We study constant mean curvature spacelike hypersurfaces in generalized Robertson-Walker spacetimes which are spatially parabolic covered (i.e. its fiber F is a (non- compact) complete Riemannian manifold whose universal covering is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-03 Juan A. Aledo , Rafael M. Rubio , Juan J. Salamanca

Motivated by the quasi-local mass problem in general relativity, we study the rigidity of isometric immersions with the same mean curvature into a warped product space. As a corollary of our main result, two star-shaped hypersurfaces in a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-17 Chunhe Li , Pengzi Miao , Zhizhang Wang

The Penrose inequality in Minkowski is a geometric inequality relating the total outer null expansion and the area of closed, connected and spacelike codimension-two surfaces S in the Minkowski spacetime, subject to an additional convexity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Marc Mars , Alberto Soria

In this contribution, we study spacetimes of cosmological interest, without making any symmetry assumptions. We prove a rigid Hawking singularity theorem for positive cosmological constant, which sharpens known results. In particular, it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-16 Gregory J. Galloway , Leonardo García-Heveling

It is shown that a spacetime with collisionless matter evolving from data on a compact Cauchy surface with hyperbolic symmetry can be globally covered by compact hypersurfaces on which the mean curvature is constant and by compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Hakan Andreasson , Gerhard Rein , Alan D. Rendall

The classical Minkowski inequality in the Euclidean space provides a lower bound on the total mean curvature of a hypersurface in terms of the surface area, which is optimal on round spheres. In this paper we employ a locally constrained…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Julian Scheuer

In this article, we study hypersurfaces $\Sigma\subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with constant weighted mean curvature. Recently, Wei-Peng proved a rigidity theorem for CWMC hypersurfaces that generalizes Le-Sesum classification theorem for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-29 Saul Ancari , Igor Miranda

In this paper we study the spacelike-characteristic Cauchy problem for the Einstein vacuum equations. We prove that given initial data on a maximal compact spacelike hypersurface $\Sigma \simeq \overline{B(0,1)} \subset \mathbb{R}^3$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Stefan Czimek , Olivier Graf

We study branched covering spaces in several contexts, proving that under suitable circumstances the cover satisfies the same upper curvature bounds as the base space. The first context is of a branched cover of an arbitrary metric space…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Daniel Allcock

In this paper, we prove Allard's Interior $\varepsilon$-Regularity Theorem for $m$-dimensional varifolds with generalized mean curvature in $L^p_{loc}$, for $p \in \mathbb{R}$ such that $p>m$, in Alexandrov spaces of dimension $n$ with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-17 Marcos Agnoletto , Julio C. Correa Hoyos , Márcio Fabiano da Silva , Stefano Nardulli

We exam the validity of the definition of the ADM angular momentum without the parity assumption. Explicit examples of asymptotically flat hypersurfaces in the Minkowski spacetime with zero ADM energy-momentum vector and finite non-zero…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-18 Po-Ning Chen , Lan-Hsuan Huang , Mu-Tao Wang , Shing-Tung Yau

We prove that there are no restrictions on the spatial topology of asymptotically flat solutions of the vacuum Einstein equations in (n+1)-dimensions. We do this by gluing a solution of the vacuum constraint equations on an arbitrary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-23 James Isenberg , Rafe Mazzeo , Daniel Pollack

In this paper, we study complete hypersurfaces with constant mean curvature in anti-de Sitter space $H^{n+1}_1(-1)$. we prove that if a complete space-like hypersurface with constant mean curvature $x:\mathbf M\rightarrow H^{n+1}_1(-1) $…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-17 Changxiong Nie

In this paper, we derive new sharp weighted Alexandrov-Fenchel and Minkowski inequalities for smooth, closed hypersurfaces under various convexity assumptions in Euclidean, spherical, and hyperbolic spaces. These inequalities extend…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Kwok-Kun Kwong , Yong Wei

In this paper, we investigate the rigidity problems of complete hypersurfaces with constant mean curvature and constant scalar curvature in Euclidean spaces. Firstly, under some conditions of Gaussian-Kronecker curvature, we provide…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Jianquan Ge , Ya Tao