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We prove a globally hyperbolic spacetime with locally Lipschitz continuous metric and timelike distributional Ricci curvature bounded from below obeys the timelike measure contraction property. The remarkable class of examples of spacetimes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Mathias Braun , Marta Sálamo Candal

We give a geometrically intrinsic construction of a global time function for relatively compact diamond-shaped regions in arbitrary spacetimes. In the case of Minkowski spacetime, the flow of diffeomorphisms associated to a suitably…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-26 Pedro Lauridsen Ribeiro

In general relativity, time functions are crucial objects whose existence and properties are intimately tied to the causal structure of a spacetime and also to the initial value formulation of the Einstein equations. In this work we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-14 Annegret Burtscher , Leonardo García-Heveling

We derive geometric formulas for the mass of asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds using coordinate horospheres. As an application, we obtain a new rigidity result of hyperbolic space: if a complete asymptotically hyperbolic manifold has…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Hyun Chul Jang , Pengzi Miao

The 3+1 Hamiltonian formulation in the gauge $D_tN=-K$ on the lapse function fixes the direction of time associated with the trace $K$ of the extrinsic curvature tensor. The Hamiltonian equations hereby become hyperbolic. We study this new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-04 Maurice H. P. M. van Putten

Recent advances in observational cosmology are changing the way we view the nature of time. In general relativity, the freedom in choosing a time hypersurface has hampered the implementation of the theory. Fortunately, Hamilton-Jacobi…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. S. Salopek

In this paper, it is established, in the case of graphs, that time-like extremal surfaces of dimension $1+n$ in the Minkowski space of dimension $1+n+m$ can be described by a symmetric hyperbolic system of PDEs with the very simple…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-16 Xianglong Duan

No Hopf-Rinow Theorem is possible in Lorentzian Geometry. Nonetheless, we prove that a spacetime is globally hyperbolic if and only if it is metrically complete with respect to the null distance of a time function. Our approach is based on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Annegret Burtscher , Leonardo García-Heveling

The purpose of this article is to present a result on the existence of Cauchy temporal functions invariant by the action of a compact group of conformal transformations in arbitrary globally hyperbolic manifolds. Moreover, the previous…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-19 Olaf Müller

I give a brief informal introduction to the idea and tests of large extra dimensions, focusing on the case in which the space-time manifold has a direct product structure. I then describe some attractive implementations in which the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark Trodden

The aim of this note is to present a construction of symplectic structures on orientable globally hyperbolic 4-dimensional lorentzian manifolds. Said structures are defined on the manifold itself, not on its cotangent bundle. It also…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Romero Solha

This talk reports on recent progress toward the semiglobal study of asymptotically flat spacetimes within numerical relativity. The development of a 3D solver for asymptotically Minkowski-like hyperboloidal initial data has rendered…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Sascha Husa

Sub-wavelength confinement of light in nonlinear hyperbolic metamaterials due to formation of spatial solitons has attracted much recent attention because of its seemingly counter-intuitive behavior. In order to achieve self-focusing in a…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-16 Igor I. Smolyaninov

In this conference published in 1997 some problems on the geodesics of a Lorentzian manifold concerning causality and infinite-dimensional variational methods, are pointed out. Even though a big progress on many of these questions have been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Miguel Sanchez

We study linear gravitational perturbations of Schwarzschild spacetime by solving numerically Regge-Wheeler-Zerilli equations in time domain using hyperboloidal surfaces and a compactifying radial coordinate. We stress the importance of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-26 Anil Zenginoglu

Volume is a natural measure of complexity of a Riemannian manifold. In this survey, we discuss the results and conjectures concerning n-dimensional hyperbolic manifolds and orbifolds of small volume.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-06-16 Mikhail Belolipetsky

In this paper, we intend to bring together the hyperbolic spinors, which are useful frameworks from mathematics to physics, and both spacelike and timelike framed curves in Minkowski 3-space $\mathbb{R}_1^3$, which are new type attractive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-30 Zehra İşbilir , Bahar Doğan Yazıcı , Mehmet Güner

We study one-dimensional linear hyperbolic systems with $L^{\infty}$-coefficients subjected to periodic conditions in time and reflection boundary conditions in space. We derive a priori estimates and give an operator representation of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Irina Kmit

Modern advances in transformation optics and electromagnetic metamaterials made possible experimental demonstrations of highly unusual curvilinear optical spaces, such as various geometries necessary for electromagnetic cloaking. Recently…

Optics · Physics 2014-09-17 Igor I. Smolyaninov

Special relativity corresponds to hyperbolic geometry at constant velocity while the so-called general relativity corresponds to hyperbolic geometry of uniformly accelerated systems. Generalized expressions for angular momentum, centrifugal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-04-11 B. H. Lavenda