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I show that all inertial systems are not equivalent, and the Lorentz transformation is not the space-time transformation over two inertial systems moving with relative constant velocity. To do this, I consider imaginary signals travelling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Kosaburo Hashiguchi

Certain semi-Riemannian metrics may be decomposed into a Riemannian part and an isochronal part. We use this idea and an idea of Kasner to construct a manifold in 6+1 Minkowski space with a well known metric. The full embedding we display…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Earnest Harrison

We prove that for $n\in \{4,5\}$, a closed aspherical $n$-manifold does not admit a Riemannian metric with positive scalar curvature. Additionally, we show that for $n\leq 7$, the connected sum of a $n$-torus with an arbitrary manifold does…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-21 Otis Chodosh , Chao Li

We show that the existence of an embedded compact, boundaryless hypersurface S of strictly positive mean curvature in a noncompact, connected, complete Riemannian n-manifold N of nonnegative Ricci curvature implies that the homomorphism…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-12-07 I. P. Costa e Silva

Inspired by the analogous result in the algebraic setting (Theorem 1) we show (Theorem 2) that the product $M \times \mathbb{R}P^n$ of a closed and orientable topological manifold $M$ with the $n$-dimensional real projective space cannot be…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-12-20 Beniamino Cappelletti Montano , Andrea Loi , Daniele Zuddas

I argue that the linearity of quantum mechanics is an emergent feature at the Planck scale, along with the manifold structure of space-time. In this regime the usual causality violation objections to nonlinearity do not apply, and nonlinear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 George Svetlichny

We prove a simple, explicit formula for the mass of any asymptotically locally Euclidean (ALE) K\"ahler manifold, assuming only the sort of weak fall-off conditions required for the mass to actually be well-defined. For ALE scalar-flat…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-18 Hans-Joachim Hein , Claude LeBrun

This paper is about a generalization of famous Inoue's surfaces. Let $M$ be a matrix in $SL(2n+1,\mathbb{Z})$ having only one real eigenvalue which is simple. We associate to $M$ a complex manifold $T_M$ of complex dimension $n+1$. This…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Hisaaki Endo , Andrei Pajitnov

Questioning the presumably most basic assumptions about the structure of space and time has revolutionized our understanding of Nature. State-of-the-art atomic clocks make it possible to precisely test fundamental symmetry properties of…

We study the question of existence of a Riemannian metric of positive scalar curvature metric on manifolds with the Sullivan-Baas singularities. The manifolds we consider are Spin and simply connected. We prove an analogue of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Boris Botvinnik

Consider a Hamiltonian torus action on a connected symplectic manifold M for which the associated moment map Phi is proper in some sense. Let Q be a closed submanifold of M. We show that under certain local conditions on Q one has…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Otto

We consider the geodesic flow for a rank one non-positive curvature closed manifold. We prove an asymptotic version of the Central Limit Theorem for families of measures constructed from regular closed geodesics converging to the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-08-11 Daniel J. Thompson , Tianyu Wang

This relativistic, time-travel spacetime is everywhere metrically flat, excepting a conical singularity. Observers following timelike geodesics can eventually encounter their past selves, aging in the opposite time sense. The spacetime is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-24 John D. Norton

Let (M,J) be a minimal compact complex surface of Kaehler type. It is shown that the smooth 4-manifold M admits a Riemannian metric of positive scalar curvature iff (M,J) admits a KAEHLER metric of positive scalar curvature. This extends…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Claude LeBrun

A globally hyperbolic asymptotically flat spacetime is presented (having non-negative energy density and pressures) that shows that not all K(pi,1) prime factors of the Cauchy surface topology are passively censored according to asymptotic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Gregory A. Burnett

I tell about different mathematical tool that is important in general relativity. The text of the book includes definition of geometrical object, concept of reference frame, geometry of metric-affinne manifold. Using this concept I learn…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-11-19 Aleks Kleyn

We prove a laplacian comparison theorem in the barrier sense for the function distance to the boundary of Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature, area and mean curvature of the boundary bounded above. As an application we get…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-26 Raquel Perales

Our topological setting is a smooth compact manifold of dimension two or higher with smooth boundary. Although this underlying topological structure is smooth, the Riemannian metric tensor is only assumed to be bounded and measurable. This…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Lashi Bandara , Medet Nursultanov , Julie Rowlett

We obtain restrictions on the topology of a closed connected manifold B that bounds a (possibly noncompact) manifold whose interior V admits a complete Riemannian metric of nonpositive sectional curvature. If G denotes the fundamental group…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-05 Igor Belegradek , T. Tam Nguyen Phan

We investigate asymptotically flat manifolds with cone structure at infinity. We show that any such manifold M has a finite number of ends. For simply connected ends we classify all possible cones at infinity, except for the 4-dimensional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-22 Anton Petrunin , Wilderich Tuschmann