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In this paper, we investigate conformal Killing's vectors (CKVs) admitted by some plane symmetric spacetimes. Ten conformal Killing's equations and their general forms of CKVs are derived along with their conformal factor. The existence of…

A mean curvature flow starting from a closed embedded hypersurface in $R^{n+1}$ must develop singularities. We show that if the flow has only generic singularities, then the space-time singular set is contained in finitely many compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-25 Tobias Holck Colding , William P. Minicozzi

In this paper, using connections between Clifford-Wolf isometries and Killing vector fields of constant length on a given Riemannian manifold, we classify simply connected Clifford-Wolf homogeneous Riemannian manifolds. We also get the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-04-01 V. N. Berestovskii , Yu. G. Nikonorov

Moitvated in part by [3], in this note we obtain a rigidity result for globally hyperbolic vacuum spacetimes in arbitrary dimension that admit a timelike conformal Killing vector field. Specifically, we show that if M is a Ricci flat,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-09 Gregory J. Galloway , Carlos Vega

On a compact manifold with boundary, the map consisting of the scalar curvature in the interior and the mean curvature on the boundary is a local surjection at generic metrics. We prove that this result may be localized to compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Hongyi Sheng

We consider complete spacelike hypersurfaces with constant mean curvature in the open region of de Sitter space known as the steady state space. We prove that if the hypersurface is bounded away from the infinity of the ambient space, then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-17 Alma L. Albujer , Luis J. Alias

A clear understanding of topology of higher-dimensional objects is important in many branches of both pure and applied mathematics. In this survey we attempt to present some results of higher-dimensional topology in a way which makes clear…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-12-06 A. Skopenkov

We define a hierarchy of special classes of constrained Willmore surfaces by means of the existence of a polynomial conserved quantity of some type, filtered by an integer. Type 1 with parallel top term characterises parallel mean curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-01 Áurea Casinhas Quintino , Susana Duarte Santos

We investigate the conformal geometry of spherically symmetric spacetimes in general without specifying the form of the matter distribution. The general conformal Killing symmetry is obtained subject to a number of integrability conditions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 S. Moopanar , S. D. Maharaj

In the present work, using the recently introduced framework of local geometric deformations, special types of vector fields - so-called hidden Killing vector fields - are constructed, which solve the Killing equation not globally, but only…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-15 Albert Huber

It is proved the existence and uniqueness of graphs with prescribed mean curvature in Riemannian submersions fibered by flow lines of a vertical Killing vector field.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-10-10 Marcos Dajczer , Jorge H. de Lira

We obtain bounds on the least dimension of an affine space that can contain an $n$-dimensional submanifold without any pairs of parallel or intersecting tangent lines at distinct points. This problem is closely related to the generalized…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 M. Ghomi , S. Tabachnikov

All the supersymmetric configurations of pure, ungauged, N=4,d=4 supergravity are classified in a formalism that keeps manifest the S and T dualities of the theory. We also find simple equations that need to be satisfied by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 Jorge Bellorin , Tomas Ortin

We study trapped surfaces from the point of view of local isometric embedding into three-dimensional Riemannian manifolds. When a two-surface is embedded into three-dimensional Euclidean space, the problem of finding all surfaces applicable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-26 Donato Bini , Giampiero Esposito

We study codimension two spacelike submanifolds contained into a general class of null hypersurfaces in generalized Robertson-Walker spacetimes, refer to as nullcones. In particular we analyze light cones and lightlike cylinders in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Luis J. Alias , Josue Melendez , Matias Navarro , Didier A. Solis

Given a domain $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^{m+1}$ and a $k$-dimensional non-degenerate minimal submanifold $K$ of $\pa \Omega$ with $1\le k\le m-1$, we prove the existence of a family of embedded constant mean curvature hypersurfaces which as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-11-15 Mouhamed Moustapha Fall , Fethi Mahmoudi

Improving a singularity theorem in General Relativity by Galloway and Ling we show the following (cf.\ Theorem 1): If a globally hyperbolic spacetime $M$ satisfying the null energy condition contains a closed, spacelike Cauchy surface…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-30 Eric Ling , Carl Rossdeutscher , Walter Simon , Roland Steinbauer

In this paper we prove that stable, compact without boundary, oriented, nonzero constant mean curvature surfaces in the de Sitter-Schwarzschild and Reissner-Nordstrom manifolds are the slices, provided its mean curvature satisfies some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-08 Gregório Silva Neto

Let $n\ge 2$ and $k\ge 1$ be two integers. Let $M$ be an isometrically immersed closed $n$-submanifold of co-dimension $k$ that is homotopic to a point in a complete manifold $N$, where the sectional curvature of $N$ is no more than…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-04 Yanyan Niu , Shicheng Xu

This paper is the fifth and final in a series on embedded minimal surfaces. Following our earlier papers on disks, we prove here two main structure theorems for non-simply connected embedded minimal surfaces of any given fixed genus. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-11-21 Tobias H. Colding , William P. Minicozzi