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We prove that a globally hyperbolic smooth spacetime endowed with a $\smash{\mathrm{C}^1}$-Lorentzian metric whose Ricci tensor is bounded from below in all timelike directions, in a distributional sense, obeys the timelike…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-10 Mathias Braun , Matteo Calisti

For a smooth spacetime $X$, based on the timelike homotopy classes of its timelike paths, we define a topology on $X$ that refines the Alexandrov topology and always coincides with the manifold topology. The space of timelike or causal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-16 Martin Günther

We show that the random adjacency matrices induced by the chronological relations and i.i.d. samples of two spacetimes coincide in law if and only if the spacetimes in question are smoothly isometric. A similar result holds for weighted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-03 Mathias Braun

Universal spacetimes are exact solutions to all higher-order theories of gravity. We study these spacetimes in four dimensions and provide necessary and sufficient conditions for universality for all Petrov types except of type II. We show…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-09 Sigbjørn Hervik , Vojtěch Pravda , Alena Pravdová

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 introduce an analogue of the theory of length spaces into the setting of Lorentzian geometry and causality theory. The r\^ole of the metric is taken over by the time separation function, in terms of which all basic notions are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-07 Michael Kunzinger , Clemens Sämann

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

The paper establishes a sharp and rigid isoperimetric-type inequality in Lorentzian signature under the assumption of Ricci curvature bounded below in the timelike directions. The inequality is proved in the high generality of Lorentzian…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Fabio Cavalletti , Andrea Mondino

We derive a correspondence between (Lorentzian) harmonic maps into the pseudosphere $S_1^2$, with appropriate regularity conditions, and certain connection 1-forms. To these harmonic maps, we associate a representation of type Weierstrass,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Josef Dorfmeister , Junichi Inoguchi , Magdalena Toda

In this paper, we construct a class of collapsing spacetimes in vacuum without any symmetries. The spacetime contains a black hole region which is bounded from the past by the future event horizon. It possesses a Cauchy hypersurface with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-26 Junbin Li , He Mei

In this note we discuss the possibility to define a space-time with a DSR based approach. We show that the strategy of defining a non linear realization of the Lorentz symmetry with a consistent vector composition law cannot be reconciled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Aloisio , A. Galante , A. F. Grillo , E. Luzio , F. Mendez

Timelike sectional curvature bounds play an important role in spacetime geometry, both for the understanding of classical smooth spacetimes and for the study of Lorentzian (pre-)length spaces introduced in \cite{kunzinger2018lorentzian}. In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Tobias Beran , Michael Kunzinger , Argam Ohanyan , Felix Rott

At first we introduce the space-time manifold and we compare some aspects of Riemannian and Lorentzian geometry such as the distance function and the relations between topology and curvature. We then define spinor structures in general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Giampiero Esposito

Non-Euclidean method of the generalized geometry construction is considered. According to this approach any generalized geometry is obtained as a result of deformation of the proper Euclidean geometry. The method may be applied for…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yuri A. Rylov

We show that the Lorentzian Snyder models, together with their Galilei and Carroll limiting cases, can be rigorously constructed through the projective geometry description of Lorentzian, Galilean and Carrollian spaces with nonvanishing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-27 Angel Ballesteros , Giulia Gubitosi , Francisco J. Herranz

The null distance for Lorentzian manifolds was recently introduced by Sormani and Vega. Under mild assumptions on the time function of the spacetime, the null distance gives rise to an intrinsic, conformally invariant metric that induces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-01 Brian Allen , Annegret Burtscher

Time is, figuratively and literally, becoming the new dimension for crystalline matter. As such, rapid recent progress on time-varying media gave rise to the notion of temporal and spatiotemporal crystals. Fundamentally rethinking the role…

This chapter is an up-to-date account of results on globally hyperbolic spacetimes, and serves several purposes. We begin with the exposition of results from a foundational level, where the main tools are order theory and general topology,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Felix Finster , Albert Much , Kyriakos Papadopoulos

Within the generalized Newton-Cartan theory, Galilean Twisted spacetimes are introduced as dual models of the well-known relativistic twisted spacetimes. As a natural generalization, torqued vector fields in Galilean spacetimes are defined,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-24 Daniel de la Fuente , Rafael M. Rubio , Jose Torrente

It is shown that every regular electromagnetic field in vacuum identically satisfy Maxwell equations in a new manifold where the roles of space and time have been exchanged. The new metric is Lorentzian, depends on the particular solution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 Érico Goulart , Eduardo Bittencourt