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On a Riemannian manifold, lower Ricci curvature bounds are known to be characterized by geodesic convexity properties of various entropies with respect to the Kantorovich-Rubinstein-Wasserstein square distance from optimal transportation.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Robert J McCann

We show the rigid singularity theorem, that is, a globally hyperbolic spacetime satisfying the strong energy condition and containing past trapped sets, either is timelike geodesically incomplete or splits isometrically as space $\times$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Makoto Narita

What restrictions are there on a spacetime for which the Ricci curvature is such as to produce convergence of geodesics (such as the preconditions for the Singularity Theorems) but for which there are no singularities? We answer this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 David Garfinkle , Steven G. Harris

We provide a short introduction to ``Lorentzian metric spaces" i.e., spacetimes defined solely in terms of the two-point Lorentzian distance. As noted in previous work, this structure is essentially unique if minimal conditions are imposed,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-23 E. Minguzzi

We study the global structure of Lorentzian manifolds with partial sectional curvature bounds. In particular, we prove completeness theorems for homogeneous and isotropic cosmologies as well as static spherically symmetric spacetimes. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Raffaele Punzi , Frederic P. Schuller , Mattias N. R. Wohlfarth

We show that many Lorentzian manifolds of dimension >2 do not admit a spacelike codimension-one foliation, and that almost every manifold of dimension >2 which admits a Lorentzian metric at all admits one which satisfies the dominant energy…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marc Nardmann

In this paper, we study complete space-like $\lambda$-hypersurfaces in the Lorentzian space $\mathbb R^{n+1}_1$. As the result, we prove some rigidity theorems for these hypersurfaces including the complete space-like self-shrinkers in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-11 Xingxiao Li , Xiufen Chang

We prove a low-regularity version of Hawking's singularity theorem for Lorentzian metrics in $W^{1,p}$ with Riemann curvature in $L^p$, where $p>2n$ and $n$ the dimension of spacetime. This extends previous results beyond the Lipschitz…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-01 Michael Kunzinger , Moritz Reintjes , Roland Steinbauer , Inés Vega-González

We consider a Lorentzian analogue of the Ptolemy inequality and we prove that in the setting of globally hyperbolic spacetimes it is equivalent to a global timelike sectional curvature bound from above by zero. We investigate the link…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Felix Rott , Zhe-Feng Xu , Matteo Zanardini

We give a quite detailed overview on the proof of the Cheeger-Colding-Gromoll splitting theorem in the abstract framework of spaces with Riemannian Ricci curvature bounded from below.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-22 Nicola Gigli

In this article we introduce a notion of normalized angle for Lorentzian pre-length spaces. This concept allows us to prove some equivalences to the definition of timelike curvature bounds from below for Lorentzian pre-length spaces.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Waldemar Barrera , Luis Montes de Oca , Didier A. Solis

We prove Hawking's singularity theorem for spacetime metrics of local Lipschitz regularity. The proof rests on (1) new estimates for the Ricci curvature of regularising smooth metrics that are based upon a quite general Friedrichs-type…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Matteo Calisti , Melanie Graf , Eduardo Hafemann , Michael Kunzinger , Roland Steinbauer

In this note we derive an improved no-local-collapsing theorem of Ricci flow under the scalar curvature bound condition along the worldline of the basepoint. It is a refinement of Perelman's no-local-collapsing theorem.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Wangjian Jian

We study the low-regularity (in-)extendibility of spacetimes within the synthetic-geometric framework of Lorentzian length spaces developed in [KS:17]. To this end, we introduce appropriate notions of geodesics and timelike geodesic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-07 James D. E. Grant , Michael Kunzinger , Clemens Sämann

A compactness theorem is proved for a family of K\"{a}hler surfaces with constant scalar curvature and volume bounded from below, diameter bounded from above, Ricci curvature bounded and the signature bounded from below. Furthermore, a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-04 Hongliang Shao

By studying the warped(or weighted) area-minimizing hypersurface, we prove that the metric can be locally split as a warped product metric under the spectral Ricci or spectral scalar curvature lower bound condition.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Yukai Sun

We introduce a natural extension of the concept of gradient Ricci soliton: the Ricci almost soliton. We provide existence and rigidity results, we deduce a-priori curvature estimates and isolation phenomena, and we investigate some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-15 Stefano Pigola , Marco Rigoli , Michele Rimoldi , Alberto G. Setti

We prove the existence of closed hypersurfaces of prescribed scalar curvature in globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds provided there are barriers.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-26 Christian Enz

In this paper we present a rigidity theorem for locally isometric hypersurfaces with a curvature restriction in de Sitter space. This is an analogue to the case for Riemannian space forms given by Guan and Shen in [5].

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Tristan Hasson

In this work, we construct several sequences of metrics on sphere with different limiting behaviors. By combining with the work of Deruelle, we use it and the localized maximum principle to construct various examples of expanding gradient…

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