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We study the scalar curvature of spacelike hypersurfaces in the family of cosmological models known as generalized Robertson-Walker spacetimes, and give several rigidity results under appropriate mathematical and physical assumptions. On…

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We investigate the cosmological behavior in a universe governed by time asymmetric extensions of general relativity, which is a novel modified gravity based on the addition of new, time-asymmetric, terms on the Hamiltonian framework, in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-11 Genly Leon , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We study the global behavior of (weakly) stable constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in general Riemannian manifolds. By using harmonic function theory, we prove some one-end theorems which are new even for constant mean curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Xu Cheng , Leung-fu Cheung , Detang Zhou

We identify a condition on spacelike 2-surfaces in a spacetime that is relevant to understanding the concept of mass in general relativity. We prove a formula for the variation of the spacetime Hawking mass under a uniformly area expanding…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-30 Hubert L. Bray , Jeffrey L. Jauregui

Singularity theorems of general relativity utilize the notion of causal geodesic incompleteness as a criterion of the presence of a spacetime singularity. The incompleteness of a causal curve implies the end and/or beginning of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir S. Mashkevich

We propose a new notion of singularity in General Relativity which complements the usual notions of geodesic incompleteness and curvature singularities. Concretely, we say that a spacetime has a volume singularity if there exist points…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-30 Leonardo García-Heveling

In this paper we try to clarify that a regular metric can generate a singular spacetime. Our work focuses on a static and spherically symmetric spacetime in which regularity exists when all components of the Riemann tensor are finite. There…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-07 Manuel E. Rodrigues , Henrique A. Vieira

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 develop a ``canonical Wick rotation-rescaling theory in 3-dimensional gravity''. This includes: (a) A simultaneous classification that shows how generic maximal globally hyperbolic spacetimes of constant curvature, which admit a complete…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Riccardo Benedetti , Francesco Bonsante

We consider the late-time accelerated universe in the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) spacetime with a nonzero curvature, and investigate cosmological models when the cosmic fluid is taken to be inhomogeneous and viscous (bulk viscous),…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-18 Iver Brevik , Alexander V. Timoshkin

Extending the study of spherically symmetric metrics satisfying the dominant energy condition and exhibiting singularities of power-law type initiated in SI93, we identify two classes of peculiar interest: focusing timelike singularity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Marie-Noelle Celerier , Peter Szekeres

The folk questions in Lorentzian Geometry, which concerns the smoothness of time functions and slicings by Cauchy hypersurfaces, are solved by giving simple proofs of: (a) any globally hyperbolic spacetime $(M,g)$ admits a smooth time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Antonio N. Bernal , Miguel Sánchez

It is shown that there are static spacetimes with timelike curvature singularities which appear completely nonsingular when probed with quantum test particles. Examples include extreme dilatonic black holes and the fundamental string…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Gary T. Horowitz , Donald Marolf

We describe a nonsmooth notion of globally hyperbolic, regular length metric spacetimes $(\mathrm{M},l)$. It is based on ideas of Kunzinger-S\"amann, but does not require Lipschitz continuity of causal curves. We study geodesics on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-29 Mathias Braun , Robert J. McCann

In this paper we study the problem of uniqueness for spacelike hypersurfaces with constant higher order mean curvature in generalized Robertson-Walker (GRW) spacetimes. In particular, we consider the following question: Under what…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-03-03 Luis J. Alias , A. Gervasio Colares

Recent developments in ``Einstein Dehn filling'' allow the construction of infinitely many Einstein manifolds that have different topologies but are geometrically close to each other. Using these results, we show that for many spatial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-28 M. Anderson , S. Carlip , J. Ratcliffe , S. Surya , S. Tschantz

We consider general relativity with cosmological constant minimally coupled to electromagnetic field and assume that four-dimensional space-time manifold is the warped product of two surfaces with Lorentzian and Euclidean signature metrics.…

General Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 D. E. Afanasev , M. O. Katanaev

This work discusses the apriori possible asymptotic behavior to the future, for (vacuum) space-times which are geodesically complete to the future and which admit a foliation by compact constant mean curvature Cauchy surfaces.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael T. Anderson

In the pseudo-Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^{n+1,k}$, we consider the mean curvature flow of $n$-dimensional spacelike submanifolds with spacelike codimension one and arbitrary timelike codimension $k$. We show that if the initial submanifold…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Ben Andrews , Qiyu Zhou

We consider the cosmological models for the higher dimensional spacetime which includes the curvatures of our space as well as the curvatures of the internal space. We find that the condition for the integrability of the cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Masakazu Sano , Hisao Suzuki