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In this paper we introduce the notion of timelike surface with harmonic inverse mean curvature in 3-dimensional Lorentzian space forms, and study their fundamental properties.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Atsushi Fujioka , Jun-ichi Inoguchi

We study a notion of relative entropy for certain hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space. We relate this quantity to the renormalized area introduced by Graham-Witten[RW99]. We also obtain a monotonicity formula for relative entropy applied to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Junfu Yao

We introduce conformal transformations in the synthetic setting of metric spaces and Lorentzian (pre-)length spaces. Our main focus lies on the Lorentzian case, where, motivated by the need to extend classical notions to spaces of low…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Miguel Manzano , Karim Mosani , Clemens Sämann , Omar Zoghlami

We show that for generic sliced spacetimes global hyperbolicity is equivalent to space completeness under the assumption that the lapse, shift and spatial metric are uniformly bounded. This leads us to the conclusion that simple sliced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Spiros Cotsakis

We formulate and prove a synthetic Lorentzian Cartan-Hadamard theorem. This result both transfers the corresponding statement for locally convex metric spaces established by S. Alexander and R. Bishop to the Lorentzian setting, and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Darius Erös , Sebastian Gieger

In this article, existence results concerning temporal functions with additional properties on a globally hyperbolic manifold are obtained. These properties are certain bounds on geometric quantities as lapse and shift. The results are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-20 Olaf Müller

A Riemannian manifold $M$ has higher hyperbolic rank if every geodesic has a perpendicular Jacobi field making sectional curvature -1 with the geodesic. If in addition, the sectional curvatures of $M$ lie in the interval $[-1,-\frac14]$,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Chris Connell , Thang Nguyen , Ralf Spatzier

We prove the existence of a complete locally Lipschitz continuous hypersurface in weak sense with prescribed Weingarten curvature and asymptotic boundary at infinity in hyperbolic space under certain assumptions.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Zhenan Sui , Wei Sun

We identify a condition on spacelike 2-surfaces in a spacetime that is relevant to understanding the concept of mass in general relativity. We prove a formula for the variation of the spacetime Hawking mass under a uniformly area expanding…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-30 Hubert L. Bray , Jeffrey L. Jauregui

The equivalence of a conformal metric on 4-dimensional space-time and a local field of 3-dimensional subspaces of the space of 2-forms over space-time is discussed and the basic notion of transection is introduced. Corresponding relation is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Tertychniy

We prove the timelike Brunn-Minkowski inequality $\mathsf{TBM}(K,N)$ implies a timelike lower bound on the Bakry-\'Emery-Ricci curvature on weighted globally hyperbolic spacetimes. This result, together with the well-known equivalence…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Osama Farooqui

Some analysis on the Lorentzian distance in a spacetime with controlled sectional (or Ricci) curvatures is done. In particular, we focus on the study of the restriction of such distance to a spacelike hypersurface satisfying the Omori-Yau…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-16 Luis J. Alias , Ana Hurtado , Vicente Palmer

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 prove curvature-free versions of the celebrated Margulis Lemma. We are interested by both the algebraic aspects and the geometric ones, with however an emphasis on the second and we aim at giving quantitative (computable) estimates of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Gérard Besson , Gilles Courtois , Sylvestre Gallot , Andrea Sambusetti

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 the framework of the functional renormalization group and of the perturbative, algebraic approach to quantum field theory (pAQFT), in [DDPR23] it has been derived a Lorentian version of a flow equation \`a la Wetterich, which can be used…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Claudio Dappiaggi , Filippo Nava , Luca Sinibaldi

Some results related to the causality of compact Lorentzian manifolds are proven: (1) any compact Lorentzian manifold which admits a timelike conformal vector field is totally vicious, and (2) a compact Lorentzian manifold covered regularly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-23 Miguel Sánchez

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

In this paper, we generalize a classical comparison result for solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions, to solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations with non-zero boundary trace. As a consequence, we prove the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-18 Vincenzo Amato , Andrea Gentile

In this Chapter we illustrate the close connection between the violation of the weak equivalence principle typical of gravitational interactions at finite temperature, and similar violations induced by a breaking of the local Lorentz…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-13 M. Gasperini