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This paper continues the investigation of constant mean curvature (CMC) time functions in maximal globally hyperbolic spatially compact spacetimes of constant sectional curvature, which was started in math.DG/0604486. In that paper, the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lars Andersson , Thierry Barbot , Francois Beguin , Abdelghani Zeghib

We recast the tools of ``global causal analysis'' in accord with an approach to the subject animated by two distinctive features: a thoroughgoing reliance on order-theoretic concepts, and a utilization of the Vietoris topology for the space…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 R. D. Sorkin , E. Woolgar

Time functions with asymptotically hyperbolic geometry play an increasingly important role in many areas of relativity, from computing black-hole perturbations to analyzing wave equations. Despite their significance, many of their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-25 Anıl Zenginoğlu

In this paper, we consider a specific model, implementing the existence of a fundamental limit distance $L_0$ between (space or time separated) points in spacetime, which in the recent past has exhibited the intriguing feature of having a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-07 Alessandro Pesci

In this work, we prove the following three rigidity results: (i) in a real-analytic globally hyperbolic spacetime $(M,g)$ without boundary, the time separation function restricted to a thin exterior layer of a unknown compact subset $K…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Yuchao Yi , Yang Zhang

Many generic arguments support the existence of a minimum spacetime interval $L_0$. Such a "zero-point" length can be naturally introduced in a locally Lorentz invariant manner via Synge's world function bi-scalar $\Omega(p,P)$ which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-13 Dawood Kothawala

Some well-known Lorentzian concepts are transferred into the more general setting of cone structures, which provide both the causality of the spacetime and the notion of cone geodesics without making use of any metric. Lightlike…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Miguel Ángel Javaloyes , Enrique Pendás-Recondo

We demonstrate the breakdown of several fundamentals of Lorentzian causality theory in low regularity. Most notably, chronological futures (defined naturally using locally Lipschitz curves) may be non-open, and may differ from the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-15 James D. E. Grant , Michael Kunzinger , Clemens Sämann , Roland Steinbauer

In the synthetic geometric setting introduced by Kunzinger and S\"amann, we present an analogue of Toponogov's Globalisation Theorem which applies to Lorentzian length spaces with lower (timelike) curvature bounds. Our approach utilises a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Tobias Beran , John Harvey , Lewis Napper , Felix Rott

In this paper we introduce the notion of timelike surface with harmonic inverse mean curvature in 3-dimensional Lorentzian space forms, and study their fundamental properties.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Atsushi Fujioka , Jun-ichi Inoguchi

The exponential correlation function is theoretically incorrect in the entire frequency range of interest for processes described in terms of linear response theory. The Lorentzian lineshape results from an inconsistent assumption of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 T. R. S. Prasanna

We consider spacetime to be a 4-dimensional differentiable manifold that can be split locally into time and space. No metric, no linear connection are assumed. Matter is described by classical fields/fluids. We distinguish electrically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Friedrich W. Hehl , Yuri N. Obukhov

We show differentiability of a class of Geroch's volume functions on globally hyperbolic manifolds. Furthermore, we prove that every volume function satisfies a local anti-Lipschitz condition over causal curves, and that locally Lipschitz…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-02 Piotr T. Chruściel , James D. E. Grant , Ettore Minguzzi

We present an abstract approach to Lorentzian Gromov-Hausdorff distance and convergence, and an alternative approach to Lorentzian length spaces that does not use auxiliary ``positive signature'' metrics or other unobserved fields. We begin…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-31 E. Minguzzi , S. Suhr

We introduce conformal transformations in the synthetic setting of metric spaces and Lorentzian (pre-)length spaces. Our main focus lies on the Lorentzian case, where, motivated by the need to extend classical notions to spaces of low…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Miguel Manzano , Karim Mosani , Clemens Sämann , Omar Zoghlami

We study the optimal transport problem on globally hyperbolic spacetimes associated with Orlicz-type Lorentzian cost functions of the form $u \circ \ell$, where $u$ is a suitable monotonically increasing and concave function, and $\ell$ is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Argam Ohanyan , Marta Sálamo Candal

The Lorentzian length, which is one of the most significant functions in Lorentzian geometry, is a complex-valued function. Its square gives a real-valued non-degenerate quadratic function. In this paper, we define naturally extended…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Shunsuke Ichiki , Takashi Nishimura

A timelike space is a Hausdorff topological space equipped with a partial order relation $<$ and a distance function $\rho$ satisfying a collection of axioms including a set of compatibility conditions between the partial order relation and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Athanase Papadopoulos , Sumio Yamada

The main aim of this article is to investigate a spacetime of quasi-constant sectional curvature. At first, the existence of such a spacetime is established by several examples. We have shown that a spacetime of quasi-constant sectional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Uday Chand De , Krishnendu De , Fusun Ozen Zengin , Sezgin Altay Demirbag

Supersymmetric solutions of supergravity theories, and consequently metrics with special holonomy, have played an important role in the development of string theory. We describe how a Lorentzian manifold is either completely reducible, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 J Brannlund , A Coley , S Hervik