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We point out that the geometry of connected totally geodesic compact null hypersurfaces in Lorentzian manifolds is only slightly more specialized than that of Riemannian flows over compact manifolds, the latter mathematical theory having…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-01 R. A. Hounnonkpe , E. Minguzzi

The null geodesics of a Schwarzschild black hole are studied from a dynamical systems perspective. Written in terms of Kerr-Schild coordinates, the null geodesic equation takes on the simple form of a particle moving under the influence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 Edward Belbruno , Frans Pretorius

When a dynamical system is subject to a periodic perturbation, the averaging method can be applied to obtain an autonomous leading order "guiding system", placing the time dependence at higher orders. Recent research focused on…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Pedro C. C. R. Pereira , Mike R. Jeffrey , Douglas D. Novaes

We investigate the time evolution of sub-Keplerian transonic accretion flow onto a non-rotating black hole using axisymmetric viscous hydrodynamic simulations. We simulate the accretion flow using boundary values from semi-analytical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-25 Sanjit Debnath , Indranil Chattopadhyay , Raj Kishor Joshi , Philippe Laurent , Priyesh Kumar Tripathi , M. Saleem Khan

We study the curve shortening flow on Riemann surfaces with finitely many conformal conical singularities. If the initial curve is passing through the singular points, then the evolution is governed by a degenerate quasilinear parabolic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Nikolaos Roidos , Andreas Savas-Halilaj

We show that some pieces of cylinders bounded by two parallel straight-lines bifurcate in a family of periodic non-rotational surfaces with constant mean curvature and with the same boundary conditions. These cylinders are initial…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-12-13 Rafael López

Low angular momentum, general relativistic, axially symmetric accretion of hydrodynamic fluid onto Schwarzschild black holes may undergo more than one critical transition. To obtain the stationary integral solutions corresponding to such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-25 Arpan Krishna Mitra , Aishee Chakraborty , Pratik Tarafdar , Tapas Kumar Das

In this paper, we introduce a kind of inverse mean curvature flow (1.2) in a Sasakian sub-Riemannian 3-manifold $M$ for Legendrian curves, which slightly differs from the classical one, and confirm that this flow preserves the Legendrian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Jingshi Cui , Peibiao Zhao

This note describes the behavior of null-geodesics near nondegenerate Killing horizons in language amenable to the application of a general framework, due to Vasy and Hintz, for the analysis of both linear and nonlinear wave equations.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-09 Oran Gannot

We obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of "conservation laws" on null hypersurfaces for the wave equation on general four-dimensional Lorentzian manifolds. Examples of null hypersurfaces exhibiting such conservation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-26 Stefanos Aretakis

For hypersurfaces moving by standard mean curvature flow with boundary, we show that if a tangent flow at a boundary singularity is given by a smoothly embedded shrinker, then the shrinker must be non-orientable. We also show that there is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Brian White

Here we provide uniqueness of vanishing viscosity solutions to sub-Riemannian mean curvature flow problem, which was known only far from characteristic points or under special symmetry condition. We employ vanishing viscosity approach and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Emre Baspinar , Giovanna Citti

We consider closed immersed hypersurfaces evolving by surface diffusion flow, and perform an analysis based on local and global integral estimates. First we show that a properly immersed stationary (\Delta H \equiv 0) hypersurface in \R^3…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-03-12 Glen Wheeler

Motivated by the conjectured Penrose inequality and by the work of Hawking, Geroch, Huisken and Ilmanen in the null and the Riemannian case, we examine necessary conditions on flows of two-surfaces in spacetime under which the Hawking…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Hubert Bray , Sean Hayward , Marc Mars , Walter Simon

We consider $n$-dimensional hypersurfaces flowing by mean curvature flow with Neumann free boundary conditions supported on a smooth support surface. We show that the Hausdorff $n$-measure of the singular set is zero. In fact, we consider…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-12-21 Amos N. Koeller

We consider the evolution of hypersurfaces on the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^{n+1}$ by smooth functions of the Weingarten map. We introduce the notion of `quasi-ancient' solutions for flows that do not admit non-trivial, convex, ancient…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-15 Paul Bryan , Mohammad N. Ivaki , Julian Scheuer

An analytical method is developed describing the approach to a finite-time singularity associated with collapse of a narrow fluid layer in an unstable Hele-Shaw flow. Under the separation of time scales near a bifurcation point, a…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-28 Raymond E. Goldstein , Adriana I. Pesci , Michael J. Shelley

We describe some dynamical properties of one parameter families of billiards on convex curves (ovals) which are deformed by the curvature (curve-shortening) flow. We obtain the bifurcations of the period two orbits and some special…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-10-04 C. Salazar , J. G. Damasceno , M. J. D. Carneiro

We investigate the formal stability of finite-amplitude non-zonal flows bifurcating from the trivial state in the unforced 2D Euler equations on the sphere. To bypass the degeneracy of the spherical Laplacian and filter out the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Yuri Cacchiò

Separated flows past complex geometries are modelled by discrete vortex techniques. The flows are assumed to be rotational and inviscid, and a new technique is described to determine the streamfunctions for linear shear profiles. The…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Franzese , L. Zannetti