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Hypersurfaces of arbitrary causal character embedded in a spacetime are studied with the aim of extracting necessary and sufficient free data on the submanifold suitable for reconstructing the spacetime metric and its first derivative along…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Marc Mars

In the paper, we prove the existence of a positive and essentially bounded solution to a Lichnerowicz equation in the Einstein-scalar field theory on a closed manifold with non-constant mean curvature. In particular, the non-constant mean…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Bartosz Bieganowski , Pietro d'Avenia , Jacopo Schino , Daniel Strzelecki

Assuming minimal regularity assumptions on the data, we revisit the classical problem of finding isometric immersions into the Minkowski spacetime for hypersurfaces of a Lorentzian manifold. Our approach encompasses metrics having Sobolev…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-12-28 Philippe G. LeFloch , Cristinel Mardare , Sorin Mardare

We consider spacelike surfaces in the four-dimensional Minkowski space and introduce geometrically an invariant linear map of Weingarten-type in the tangent plane at any point of the surface under consideration. This allows us to introduce…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-05-30 Georgi Ganchev , Velichka Milousheva

This article derives closed-form parametric formulas for the Minkowski sums of convex bodies in d-dimensional Euclidean space with boundaries that are smooth and have all positive sectional curvatures at every point. Under these conditions,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-04 Sipu Ruan , Gregory S. Chirikjian

The classical Minkowski inequality implies that the volume of a bounded convex domain is controlled from above by the integral of the mean curvature of its boundary. In this note, we establish an analogous inequality without the convexity…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Ovidiu Munteanu , Jiaping Wang

We establish some existence and regularity results to the Dirichlet problem, for a class of quasilinear elliptic equations involving a partial differential operator, depending on the gradient of the solution. Our results are formulated in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-22 Giuseppina Barletta , Elisabetta Tornatore

The existence of a smooth complete strictly locally convex hypersurface with prescribed scalar curvature and asymptotic boundary at infinity in $\mathbb{H}^{3}$ is proved under the assumption that there exists a strictly locally convex…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-08 Zhenan Sui

We discuss some aspects of the differential geometry of curves in Minkowski space. We establish the Serret-Frenet equations in Minkowski space and use them to give a very simple proof of the fundamental theorem of curves in Minkowski space.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 J. B. Formiga , C. Romero

Our aim is to study invariant hypersurfaces immersed in the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, whose mean curvature is given as a linear function in the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^n$ depending on its Gauss map. These hypersurfaces are closely…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-21 Antonio Bueno , Irene Ortiz

We study the Dirichlet problem of a class of fully nonlinear elliptic equations on Hermitian manifolds and derive a priori $C^2$ estimates which depend on the initial data on manifolds, the admissible subsolutions and the upper bound of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-18 Ke Feng , Huabin Ge , Tao Zheng

This paper develops a technique for applying one-parameter prescribed mean curvature min-max theory in certain non-compact manifolds. We give two main applications. First, fix a dimension $3\le n+1 \le 7$ and consider a smooth function…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-18 Liam Mazurowski

In this paper, we consider the Dirichlet problem for a new class of augmented Hessian equations. Under sharp assumptions that the matrix function in the augmented Hessian is regular and there exists a smooth subsolution, we establish global…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-27 Feida Jiang , Neil S. Trudinger , Xiao-Ping Yang

We obtain the bifurcation of some special curves on generic 1-parameter families of surfaces in the Minkowski 3-space. The curves treated here are the locus of points where the induced pseudo metric is degenerate, the discriminant of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Marco Antônio do Couto Fernandes

We develop a degree theory for compact immersed hypersurfaces of prescribed $K$-curvature immersed in a compact, orientable Riemannian manifold, where $K$ is any elliptic curvature function. We apply this theory to count the (algebraic)…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-11 Harold Rosenberg , Graham Smith

We investigate a variational problem in the Lorentz-Minkowski space $\l^3$ whose critical points are spacelike surfaces with constant mean curvature and making constant contact angle with a given support surface along its common boundary.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Rafael López , Juncheol Pyo

In this paper, we consider Weingarten curvature equations for $k$-convex hypersurfaces with $n<2k$ in a warped product manifold $\overline{M}=I\times_{\lambda}M$. Based on the conjecture proposed by Ren-Wang in \cite{Ren2}, which is valid…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Xiaojuan Chen , Qiang Tu , Ni Xiang

In this paper we study the spacelike-characteristic Cauchy problem for the Einstein vacuum equations. We prove that given initial data on a maximal compact spacelike hypersurface $\Sigma \simeq \overline{B(0,1)} \subset \mathbb{R}^3$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Stefan Czimek , Olivier Graf

We study second-order stochastic parabolic equations in a cylindrical domain with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. Under a natural compatibility condition on the gradient-type noise, we establish global Schauder estimates in…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Kai Du

We discuss the validity of Minkowski integral identities for hypersurfaces inside a cone, intersecting the boundary of the cone orthogonally. In doing so we correct a formula provided in [3]. Then we study rigidity results for constant mean…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Filomena Pacella , Giulio Tralli