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The `observer space' of a Lorentzian spacetime is the space of future-timelike unit tangent vectors. Using Cartan geometry, we first study the structure a given spacetime induces on its observer space, then use this to define abstract…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-08 Steffen Gielen , Derek K. Wise

We investigate symmetry properties of vector-valued diffusion and Schr\"odinger equations. For a separable Hilbert space $H$ we characterize the subspaces of $L^2(\Omega, H)$ that are local (i.e., defined pointwise) and discuss the issue of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-08-04 Stefano Cardanobile , Delio Mugnolo

This paper is devoted to studying symmetries of k-symplectic Hamiltonian and Lagrangian first-order classical field theories. In particular, we define symmetries and Cartan symmetries and study the problem of associating conservation laws…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 Narciso Román-Roy , Modesto Salgado , Silvia Vilariño

Motivated by the application to spacetimes of general relativity we investigate the geometry and regularity of Lorentzian manifolds under certain curvature and volume bounds. We establish several injectivity radius estimates at a point or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bing-Long Chen , Philippe G. LeFloch

Building upon previous works characterizing GRW space-times using concircular and torse-forming vectors, this paper investigates a Lorentzian manifold equipped with a concircularly semi-symmetric metric connection. We demonstrate that such…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-29 Miroslav D. Maksimović , Milan Lj. Zlatanović , Milica R. Vučurović

Given a connected compact Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ without boundary, $\dim M\ge 2$, we consider a space--time fractional diffusion equation with an interior source that is supported on an open subset $V$ of the manifold. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Tapio Helin , Matti Lassas , Lauri Ylinen , Zhidong Zhang

Gravitational lensing allows to quantify the angular distribution of the convergence field around clusters of galaxies to constrain their connectivity to the cosmic web. We describe in this paper the corresponding theory in Lagrangian space…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Sandrine Codis , Raphael Gavazzi , Christophe Pichon , Celine Gouin

We prove convergence of symmetric diffusions on Wiener spaces by using stopping times arguments and capacity techniques. The drifts of the diffusions can be singular, we require the densities of the processes to be neither bounded from…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Andrea Posilicano , Tusheng Zhang

Semi-Riemannian manifolds that satisfy (homogeneous) linear differential conditions of arbitrary order on the curvature are analyzed. They include, in particular, the spaces with (higher-order) recurrent curvature, (higher-order) symmetric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-24 José M. M. Senovilla

In this article on the basis of a new definition of spacetime symmetry, which is in accordance with the symmetry of the curvature invariants, we investigate exact vacuum solutions of Einstein field equations corresponding to both static and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Mohammad Nouri-Zonoz , Ali Reza Tavanfar

Along with the construction of non-Lorentz-invariant effective field theories, recent studies which are based on geometric models of Finsler space-time become more and more popular. In this respect, the Finslerian approach to the problem of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 V. Balan , G. Yu. Bogoslovsky , S. S. Kokarev , D. G. Pavlov , S. V. Siparov , N. Voicu

The study of symmetries in the realm of manifolds can be approached in two different ways. On one hand, Killing vector fields on a (pseudo-)Riemannian manifold correspond to the directions of local isometries within it. On the other hand,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-09 Thales B. S. F. Rodrigues , B. F. Rizzuti

The Einstein equations for spacetimes with two commuting spacelike Killing field symmetries are studied from a Hamiltonian point of view. The complexified Ashtekar canonical variables are used, and the symmetry reduction is performed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-01 Viqar Husain

A notion of geometric symmetry is introduced that generalizes the classical concepts of Killing fields and other affine collineations. There is a sense in which flows under these new vector fields minimize deformations of the connection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Abraham I Harte

We consider a hyperbolic conservation law posed on an (N+1)-dimensional spacetime, whose flux is a field of differential forms of degree N. Generalizing the classical Kuznetsov's method, we derive an L1 error estimate which applies to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-22 Paulo Amorim , Philippe G. LeFloch , Wladimir Neves

We review the treatment of conservation laws in spacetimes that are glued together in various ways, thus adding a boundary term to the usual conservation laws. Several examples of such spacetimes will be described, including the joining of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-12 Tevian Dray

We study the spectral representation and dispersion relations that follow from some basic assumptions and the reduced spacetime symmetries on noncommutative (NC) space. Kinematic variables involving the NC parameter appear naturally as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Yi Liao , Klaus Sibold

We consider an inverse problem for a Lorentzian spacetime $(M,g)$, and show that time measurements, that is, the knowledge of the Lorentzian time separation function on a submanifold $\Sigma\subset M$ determine the $C^\infty$-jet of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-15 Matti Lassas , Lauri Oksanen , Yang Yang

We study the gravitational behaviour of a spherically symmetric radiating star when the fluid particles are in geodesic motion. We transform the governing equation into a simpler form which allows for a general analytic treatment. We find…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Thirukkanesh , S. D. Maharaj

By generalizing the cosymplectic setting for time-dependent Lagrangian mechanics, we propose a geometric framework for the Lagrangian formulation of classical field theories with a Lagrangian depending on the independent variables. For that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-01-29 Lucía Búa , Ioan Bucataru , Manuel de León , Modesto Salgado , Silvia Vilariño