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We generalize the coset procedure of homogeneous spacetimes in (pseudo-)Riemannian geometry to non-Lorentzian geometries. These are manifolds endowed with nowhere vanishing invertible vielbeins that transform under local non-Lorentzian…

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We refine a recent distributional notion of d'Alembertian of a signed Lorentz distance function to an achronal set in a metric measure spacetime obeying the timelike measure contraction property. We show precise representation formulas and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Mathias Braun

It is shown that a spacetime with collisionless matter evolving from data on a compact Cauchy surface with hyperbolic symmetry can be globally covered by compact hypersurfaces on which the mean curvature is constant and by compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Hakan Andreasson , Gerhard Rein , Alan D. Rendall

We establish the Bonnet-Myers theorem, Laplacian comparison theorem, and Bishop-Gromov volume comparison theorem for weighted Finsler manifolds as well as weighted Finsler spacetimes, of weighted Ricci curvature bounded below by using the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-09 Yufeng Lu , Ettore Minguzzi , Shin-ichi Ohta

We investigate measures of distance and redshift in cosmological space-times that admit a shear-free foliation, which we henceforth refer to as `quasi-Newtonian'. Space expands isotropically in this description, and small-scale…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-10 Asta Heinesen , Davide Fontana , Timothy Clifton

Motivated by recent breathtaking progress in the synthetic study of Lorentzian geometry, we investigate the local concavity of time separation functions on Finsler spacetimes as a Lorentzian counterpart to Busemann's convexity in metric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Tobias Beran , Darius Erös , Shin-ichi Ohta , Felix Rott

In this paper we perform a full gauge-fixing of the phase space of four dimensional General Relativity (GR) of Lorentzian signature for the time symmetric case, using the CDJ variables. In particular, the Gauss' law constraint in the chosen…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-01 Eyo Eyo Ita

A practical way to deal with the problem of time in quantum cosmology and quantum gravity is proposed. The main tool is effective equations, which mainly restrict explicit considerations to semiclassical regimes but have the crucial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-20 Martin Bojowald , Philipp A Hoehn , Artur Tsobanjan

In this second paper, I construct a limit space of a Cauchy sequence of globally hyperbolic spacetimes. In the second section, I work gradually towards a construction of the limit space. I prove the limit space is unique up to isometry. I…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Johan Noldus

We investigate suitable, physically motivated conditions on spacetimes containing certain submanifolds - the so-called {weakly trapped submanifolds} - that ensure, in a set of neighboring metrics with respect to a convenient topology, that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Victor Luis Espinoza , Ivan Pontual Costa e Silva

The scope of this survey is to give a self-contained introduction to synthetic timelike Ricci curvature bounds for (possibly non-smooth) Lorentzian spaces via optimal transport $\&$ entropy tools, including a synthetic version of Hawking's…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-11 Fabio Cavalletti , Andrea Mondino

We investigate a generalization of the so-called metric splitting of globally hyperbolic space-times to non-smooth Lorentzian manifolds and show the existence of this metric splitting for a class of wave-type space-times. Our approach is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-06-30 Günther Hörmann , Clemens Sämann

Given a Riemannian manifold M and a hypersurface H in M, it is well known that infinitesimal convexity on a neighborhood of a point in H implies local convexity. We show in this note that the same result holds in a semi-Riemannian manifold.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-15 Erasmo Caponio

The Cauchy problem for semi-linear Klein-Gordon equations is considered in Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker spacetimes. The local and global well-posedness of the Cauchy problem is considered in Sobolev spaces. The non-existence of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-11-06 Makoto Nakamura , Takuma Yoshizumi

We prove a transverse diameter theorem in the context of Lorentzian foliations, which can be interpreted as a Hawking--Penrose-type singularity theorem for timelike geodesics transverse to the foliation. In order to develop the necessary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Francisco C. Caramello , Henrique A. Puel Martins , Ivan P. Costa e Silva

Complexifying space time has many interesting applications, from the construction of higher dimensional unification, to provide a useful framework for quantum gravity and to better define some local symmetries that suffer singularities in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-22 Eduardo Guendelman

We study the Lorentzian metric independent of the time variable in the cylinder $\mathbb{R}\times\Omega$ where $x_0\in\mathbb{R}$ is the time variable and $\Omega$ is a bounded smooth domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$. We consider forward…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-14 Gregory Eskin

Based on an extended time-space symmetry, a cylindrical model of gravitational geometrical dynamics with two time-like extra-dimensions leads to a microscopic geodesic description of the curved space-time. Due to interaction of a Higgs-like…

General Physics · Physics 2015-10-15 Vo Van Thuan

Classical Kleinian groups are discrete subgroups of isometries of H n. The well-known theory of Kleinian groups starts with the definition of their associated limit set in the boundary of H n , and includes the geometric properties of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-14 Thierry Barbot

We consider the Cauchy problem for 2-D incompressible isotropic elastodynamics. Standard energy methods yield local solutions on a time interval $[0,{T}/{\epsilon}]$, for initial data of the form $\epsilon U_0$, where $T$ depends only on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-01-01 Zhen Lei , Thomas C. Sideris , Yi Zhou