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Within the synthetic-geometric framework of Lorentzian (pre-)length spaces developed in Kunzinger and S\"amann (Ann. Glob. Anal. Geom. 54(3):399--447, 2018) we introduce a notion of a hyperbolic angle, an angle between timelike curves and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Tobias Beran , Clemens Sämann

We develop a new approach to, and small extension of, results of Cheeger, Colding and Tian concerning the $L^{k/2}$ norm of the curvature of a Riemannian manifold Gromov-Hausdorff close to a codimension $k$ singularity.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-12-08 Xiuxiong Chen , Simon Donaldson

In the present work, a theoretical framework focussing on local geometric deformations is introduced in order to cope with the problem of how to join spacetimes with different geometries and physical properties. Using this framework, it is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-22 Albert Huber

Different extended objects can fall in different ways, depending on their internal structures. Some motions are nevertheless impossible, regardless of internal structure. This paper derives universal constraints on extended-body motion,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-14 Abraham I. Harte , David Dwyer

A natural question in mathematical general relativity is how the ADM mass behaves as a functional on the space of asymptotically flat 3-manifolds of nonnegative scalar curvature. In previous results, lower semicontinuity has been…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-11 Jeffrey L. Jauregui , Dan A. Lee

The initial value problem is well-defined on a class of spacetimes broader than the globally hyperbolic geometries for which existence and uniqueness theorems are traditionally proved. Simple examples are the time-nonorientable spacetimes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 John L. Friedman

Chernov-Nemirovski observed that the existence of a globally hyperbolic Lorentzian metric on a (3 + 1)-spacetime pins down a smooth structure on the underlying 4-manifold. In this paper, we point out that the diffeomorphism type of a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Rafael Torres

A calculus based on pointer-mark coincidences is proposed to define, in a mathematically rigorous way, measurements of space and time intervals. The connection between such measurements in different inertial frames according to the Galilean…

General Physics · Physics 2011-10-26 J. H. Field

If one thinks of a Riemannian metric, $g_1$, analogously as the gradient of the corresponding distance function, $d_1$, with respect to a background Riemannian metric, $g_0$, then a natural question arises as to whether a corresponding…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Brian Allen , Edward Bryden

Timelike Liouville field theory is a candidate model for positive curvature two-dimensional quantum gravity, but a mathematically controlled Lorentzian formulation has remained elusive. In this paper we construct the theory on the cylinder…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Sourav Chatterjee

We establish a new uniqueness theorem for the three dimensional Schwarzschild-de Sitter metrics. For this some new or improved tools are developed. These include a reverse Lojasiewicz inequality, which holds in a neighborhood of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-15 Stefano Borghini , Piotr T. Chruściel , Lorenzo Mazzieri

The theory of noncommutative geometry provides an interesting mathematical background for developing new physical models. In particular, it allows one to describe the classical Standard Model coupled to Euclidean gravity. However,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-05 Nicolas Franco , Michał Eckstein

Here we investigate the Cauchy problem for the barotropic Navier-Stokes equations in R^n, in the critical Besov spaces setting. We improve recent results as regards the uniqueness condition: initial velocities in critical Besov spaces with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-26 Raphaël Danchin

In this paper, we study the Cauchy problem of the compressible Euler system with strongly singular velocity alignment. We prove the existence and uniqueness of global solutions in critical Besov spaces to the considered system with small…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-07 Xiang Bai , Qianyun Miao , Changhui Tan , Liutang Xue

It is known that no length or time measurements are possible in sub-Planckian regions of spacetime. The Volovich hypothesis postulates that the micro-geometry of spacetime may therefore be assumed to be non-archimedean. In this letter, the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-20 V. S. Varadarajan , J. Virtanen

It is shown that there are nonlinear sigma models which are Darboux integrable and possess a solvable Vessiot group in addition to those whose Vessiot groups are central extensions of semi-simple Lie groups. They govern harmonic maps…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-02 Jeanne N. Clelland , Peter J. Vassiliou

In this paper we study sectional curvature bounds for Riemannian manifolds with density from the perspective of a weighted torsion free connection introduced recently by the last two authors. We develop two new tools for studying weighted…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-19 Lee Kennard , William Wylie , Dmytro Yeroshkin

In this work, we prove the following three rigidity results: (i) in a real-analytic globally hyperbolic spacetime $(M,g)$ without boundary, the time separation function restricted to a thin exterior layer of a unknown compact subset $K…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Yuchao Yi , Yang Zhang

We obtain improved local well-posedness results for the Lorentzian timelike minimal surface equation. In dimension $d=3$, for a surface of arbitrary co-dimension, we show a gain of $1/3$ derivative regularity compared to a generic equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Georgios Moschidis , Igor Rodnianski

The key tool of this paper is a new Carleman estimate for an arbitrary parabolic operator of the second order for the case of reversed time data. This estimate works on an arbitrary time interval. On the other hand, the previously known…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Michael V. Klibanov , Anatoly G. Yagola