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We define a one-parameter family of canonical volume measures on Lorentzian (pre-)length spaces. In the Lorentzian setting, this allows us to define a geometric dimension - akin to the Hausdorff dimension for metric spaces - that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Robert J. McCann , Clemens Sämann

Inspired by some recent works of Tippett-Tsang and Mallary-Khanna-Price, we present a new spacetime model containing closed timelike curves (CTCs). This model is obtained postulating an ad hoc Lorentzian metric on $\mathbb{R}^4$, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-07 Davide Fermi , Livio Pizzocchero

Extending the recent work of Cannarsa, Cheng and Fathi, we investigate topological properties of the locus ${\cal NU}(M,g)$ of multiple maximizing geodesics on a globally hyperbolic spacetime $(M,g)$, i.e.\ the set of causally related pairs…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Alec Metsch

We investigate the causal structure of two-sheeted space-times using the tools of Lorentzian spectral triples. We show that the noncommutative geometry of these spaces allows for causal relations between the two sheets. The computation is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Nicolas Franco , Michał Eckstein

We begin with a basic exploration of the (point-set topological) notion of Hausdorff closed limits in the spacetime setting. Specifically, we show that this notion of limit is well suited to sequences of achronal sets, and use this to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-28 Gregory J. Galloway , Carlos Vega

For a Lorentzian homogeneous space, we study how algebraic conditions on the isotropy group affect the geometry and curvature of the homogeneous space. More specifically, we prove that a Lorentzian locally homogeneous space is locally…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Steven Greenwood , Thomas Leistner

In this work we introduce the taxicab and uniform products for Lorentzian pre-length spaces. We further use these concepts to endow the space $D(R\times_T X)$ of causal diamonds with a Lorentzian length space structure, closely relating its…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-02-24 Waldemar Barrera , Luis Montes de Oca , Didier A. Solis

Time-parallel algorithms, such as Parareal, are well-understood for linear problems, but their convergence analysis for nonlinear, chaotic systems remains limited. This paper introduces a new theoretical framework for analysing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Giancarlo Antonino Antonucci , Raphael Andreas Hauser , Debasmita Samaddar , James Buchanan

We consider Lorentzian correlation functions in theories with non-relativistic Schrodinger symmetry. We employ the method developed by Skenderis and van Rees in which the contour in complex time defining a given correlation function is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Robert G. Leigh , Nam Nguyen Hoang

We analyze a variational time discretization of geodesic calculus on finite- and certain classes of infinite-dimensional Riemannian manifolds. We investigate the fundamental properties of discrete geodesics, the associated discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-25 Martin Rumpf , Benedikt Wirth

We describe the geometry of geodesics on a Lorentz ellipsoid: give explicit formulas for the first integrals (pseudo-confocal coordinates), curvature, geodesically equivalent Riemannian metric, the invariant area-forms on the time- and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 D. Genin , B. Khesin , S. Tabachnikov

In this article, we introduce a modification of the timelike Hausdorff measure VN defined by McCann and Samann on Lorentzian pre-length spaces. We write the modification of VN as WN. We establish volume comparison inequalities by causality…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Hikaru Kubota

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

The Raychaudhuri equation for a geodesic congruence in the presence of a zero-point length has been investigated. This is directly related to the small-scale structure of spacetime and possibly captures some quantum gravity effects. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Sumanta Chakraborty , Dawood Kothawala , Alessandro Pesci

The intrinsic timed-Hausdorff distance between timed-metric spaces, first introduced by Sakovich--Sormani, yields a weak notion of convergence for space-times. In this paper we prove a compactness theorem for the intrinsic timed-Hausdorff…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Mauricio Che , Raquel Perales , Christina Sormani

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

The aim of this contribution is twofold. First, we show that when two (or more) different quantum groups share the same noncommutative spacetime, such an 'ambiguity' can be resolved by considering together their corresponding noncommutative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-21 Francisco J. Herranz , Angel Ballesteros , Giulia Gubitosi , Ivan Gutierrez-Sagredo

In this article, we look into geodesics in the Schwarzschild-Anti-de Sitter metric in (3+1) spacetime dimensions. We investigate the class of marginally bound geodesics (timelike and null), while comparing their behavior with the normal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-13 Dripto Biswas , Jyotirmaya Shivottam

Quantum-mechanical observables for spatial and spacetime localization are considered from a lattice-theoretic perspective. It is shown that when replacing the lattice of all complex orthogonal projections underlying the Born rule by the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Gandalf Lechner , Ivan Romualdo de Oliveira

The Riemannian manifold of curves with a Sobolev metric is an important and frequently studied model in the theory of shape spaces. Various numerical approaches have been proposed to compute geodesics, but so far elude a rigorous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Sascha Beutler , Florine Hartwig , Martin Rumpf , Benedikt Wirth