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The null distance of Sormani and Vega encodes the manifold topology as well as the causality structure of a (smooth) spacetime. We extend this concept to Lorentzian length spaces, the analog of (metric) length spaces, which generalize…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Michael Kunzinger , Roland Steinbauer

We consider a concircularly semi-symmetric metric connection and its application. The Ricci tensors with respect to the concircularly semi-symmetric metric connection are symmetric, and they are used to define Einstein type manifolds. In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Miroslav Maksimović , Milan Zlatanović , Marija Najdanović

We prove that any given function can be smoothly approximated by functions lying in the kernel of a linear operator involving at least one fractional component. The setting in which we work is very general, since it takes into account…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-22 Alessandro Carbotti , Serena Dipierro , Enrico Valdinoci

We prove a transverse diameter theorem in the context of Lorentzian foliations, which can be interpreted as a Hawking--Penrose-type singularity theorem for timelike geodesics transverse to the foliation. In order to develop the necessary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Francisco C. Caramello , Henrique A. Puel Martins , Ivan P. Costa e Silva

Time-fractional semilinear and quasilinear parabolic equations with a Caputo time derivative of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$ are considered, solutions of which exhibit a singular behaviour at an initial time of type $t^\sigma$ for any fixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Natalia Kopteva , Sean Kelly

The theory of noncommutative geometry provides an interesting mathematical background for developing new physical models. In particular, it allows one to describe the classical Standard Model coupled to Euclidean gravity. However,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-05 Nicolas Franco , Michał Eckstein

In this work we will focus on the causal character of Carter Spacetime (see B. Carter, Causal structure in space-time, Gen. Rel. Grav. 1 4 337-406, 1971). The importance of this spacetime is the following: for the causally best well behaved…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-30 Oihane F. Blanco , Andrea Moreira

Observational evidence consistently shows that the universe is spatially flat and undergoes Lorentzian time dilation as a function of redshift. In combination, such discoveries suggest that a Minkowskian description of cosmology might be…

General Physics · Physics 2024-10-14 Artur Novais , A. L. B. Ribeiro

We introduce class A spacetimes, i.e. compact vicious spacetimes $(M,g)$ such that the Abelian cover $(\bar{M},\bar{g})$ is globally hyperbolic. We study the main properties of class A spacetimes using methods similar to the one introduced…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-30 Stefan Suhr

We introduce a framework of structural approximation to represent Lorentz-invariant Minkowski space-time as the limit of finite cyclic lattices, each equipped with the action of a finite quasi-Lorentz group. This construction provides a…

General Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Boris Zilber

We generalize some classical results about quasicontinuous and separately continuous functions with values in metrizable spaces to functions with values in certain generalized metric spaces, called Maslyuchenko spaces. We establish…

General Topology · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Taras Banakh

The topology of the causal boundary for standard static spacetimes--spacetimes time-invariantly conformal to a metric product of the Lorentz line and a Riemannian manifold--is studied in depth. As this is given in terms of a set of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jose' L. Flores , Steven G. Harris

We characterize those spacetimes which admit a isometric (or conformal) embedding in some Lorentz-Minkowski space L^N. In particular, any globally hyperbolic spacetime can be isometrically embedded in L^N. This is proven by a result of its…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-11 Olaf Müller , Miguel Sánchez

This paper examines the issue of the existence and nature of time-like geodesics in asymptotically flat spacetimes and proposes a novel generalized topological criterion for the existence of time-like geodesics. Its validity is proved using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-07 Krish Jhurani , Tyler McMaken

We show that in Lorentzian manifolds, sectional curvature bounds of the form $\mathcal{R}\le K\,$, as defined by Andersson and Howard, are closely tied to space-time convex and $\lambda$-convex ($\lambda>0$) functions, as defined by Gibbons…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-10 Stephanie B. Alexander , William A. Karr

There are competing schools of thought about the question of whether spacetime is fundamentally either continuous or discrete. Here, we consider the possibility that spacetime could be simultaneously continuous and discrete, in the same…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-27 Achim Kempf

We introduce the notion of causally-null-compactifiable space-times which can be canonically converted into a compact timed-metric-spaces using the cosmological time of Andersson-Howard-Galloway and the null distance of Sormani-Vega. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Anna Sakovich , Christina Sormani

We consider the long-time behaviour of the mean curvature flow of spacelike hypersurfaces in the Lorentzian product manifold $M\times\mathbb{R}$, where $M$ is asymptotically flat. If the initial hypersurface $F_0\subset M\times\mathbb{R}$…

Recently, folk questions on the smoothability of Cauchy hypersurfaces and time functions of a globally hyperbolic spacetime M, have been solved. Here we give further results, applicable to several problems: (1) Any compact spacelike acausal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Antonio N. Bernal , Miguel Sánchez