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Motivated by the thermodynamics of black hole solutions conformal to stationary solutions, we study the geometric invariant theory of null hypersurfaces. It is well-known that a null hypersurface in a Lorentzian manifold can be treated as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-19 Samuel Blitz , David McNutt

Carrollian physics provides the natural framework for describing null hypersurfaces. This review explores the geometry of Carrollian manifolds -- spaces endowed with a degenerate metric. We begin with an algebraic overview of the Carroll…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-31 Luca Ciambelli , Puttarak Jai-akson

We study the concept of Carrollian spacetime starting from its underlying fiber-bundle structure. The latter admits an Ehresmann connection, which enables a natural separation of time and space, preserved by the subset of Carrollian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-21 Luca Ciambelli , Robert G. Leigh , Charles Marteau , P. Marios Petropoulos

We apply Cartan's method of equivalence to construct invariants of a given null hypersurface in a Lorentzian space-time. This enables us to fully classify the internal geometry of such surfaces and hence solve the local equivalence problem…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Paweł Nurowski , David C. Robinson

We explicitly determine all shear-free null hypersurfaces embedded in an Einstein spacetime, including vacuum asymptotically flat spacetimes. We characterize these hypersurfaces as oriented 3-dimensional manifolds where each is equipped…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 S. Blitz , D. McNutt , P. Nurowski

We present a definition of null G-structures on Lorentzian manifolds and investigate their geometric properties. This definition includes the Robinson structure on 4-dimensional black holes as well as the null structures that appear in all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-12 G. Papadopoulos

We discuss three different (conformally) Carrollian geometries and their relation to null infinity from the unifying perspective of Cartan geometry. Null infinity \emph{per se} comes with numerous redundancies in its intrinsic geometry and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-12 Yannick Herfray

The authors study the geometry of lightlike hypersurfaces on manifolds $(M, c)$ endowed with a pseudoconformal structure $c = CO (n - 1, 1)$ of Lorentzian signature. Such hypersurfaces are of interest in general relativity since they can be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Maks A. Akivis , Vladislav V. Goldberg

This report reviews key developments in Carrollian physics with an emphasis on their role in the emerging framework of holography in asymptotically flat spacetimes. We begin by introducing the Carrollian limit, understood as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-04 Romain Ruzziconi

We briefly review the notion of the intrinsic torsion of a $G$-structure and then go on to classify the intrinsic torsion of the $G$-structures associated with spacetimes: namely, galilean (or Newton-Cartan), carrollian, aristotelian and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-07 José Figueroa-O'Farrill

We introduce a class of null hypersurfaces of a semi-Riemannian manifold, namely, screen quasi-conformal hypersurfaces, whose geometry may be studied through the geometry of its screen distribution. In particular, this notion allows us to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-10 Matias Navarro , Oscar Palmas , Didier Solis

In this article, we consider some Carrollian dynamical systems as effective models on null hypersurfaces in a Lorentzian spacetime. We show that we can realize Carroll models from more usual ``relativistic'' theories. In particular, we show…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-18 Loïc Marsot

Carrollian Holography aims to provide a holographic description of quantum gravity in asymptotically flat spacetimes, in terms of a novel kind of `carrollian' conformal field theory defined on the spacetime null conformal boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-01 Kevin Nguyen

We study the geometry of null hypersurfaces in indefinite complex contact manifolds. We prove several classification results for a variety of well-known null hypersurfaces, including the totally umbilic, totally screen umbilic, and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-21 Samuel Ssekajja

We explain how to relate the ideas of Carroll geometry, matrix theory on instantonic objects, and infinite boost limits of M-theory. Based on these new insights, we explore the implications for possible holographic constructions involving a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-23 Chris D. A. Blair , Niels A. Obers , Ziqi Yan

In the present paper, we show that the geometry of a screen integrable null hypersurface can be generated from an isometric immersion of a leaf of its screen distribution into the ambient space. We prove, under certain geometric conditions,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-14 Samuel Ssekajja

Developments in Carrollian gravity and holography necessitate the use of singular Carroll vector fields, a feature that cannot be accommodated within standard Carrollian geometry. We introduce Carrollian Lie algebroids as a framework to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Andrew James Bruce

Hypersurfaces embedded in conformal manifolds appear frequently as boundary data in boundary-value problems in cosmology and string theory. Viewed as the non-null conformal infinity of a spacetime, we consider hypersurfaces embedded in a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-06 Samuel Blitz

The null conformal boundary $\mathscr{I}$ of Minkowski spacetime $\mathbb{M}$ plays a special role in scattering theory, as it is the locus where massless particle states are most naturally defined. We construct quantum fields on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-29 Kevin Nguyen , Peter West

In this paper, geometric characterizations of conformally flat and radially flat hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{S}^n \times \mathbb{R}$ and $\mathbb{H}^n \times \mathbb{R}$ are given by means of their extrinsic geometry. Under suitable…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-18 Rafael Novais , João Paulo dos Santos
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