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We clarify the relationship between the null geodesic completeness of an Einstein Lorentz manifold and its conformal Kobayashi pseudodistance. We show that an Einstein manifold has at least one incomplete null geodesic if its…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-10 Michael J. Markowitz

We study complex 4-manifolds with holomorphic self-dual conformal structures, and we obtain an interpretation of the Weyl tensor of such a manifold as the projective curvature of a field of cones on the ambitwistor space. In particular, its…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 F. A. Belgun

Compact flat surfaces of homogeneous Riemannian 3-manifolds with isometry group of dimension 4 are classified. Non-existence results for compact constant Gauss curvature surfaces in these 3-manifolds are established.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-03-11 Francisco Torralbo , Francisco Urbano

The non-existence of non-trivial conformally symmetric manifolds in the three-dimensional Riemannian setting is shown. In Lorentzian signature, a complete local classification is obtained. Furthermore, the isometry classes are examined.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-07 E. Calviño-Louzao , E. García-Río , J. Seoane-Bascoy , R. Vázquez-Lorenzo

We classify conformally flat Riemannian $3-$manifolds which possesses a free isometric $S^1-$action.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Sebastian Heller

4-dimensional spaces equipped with 2-dimensional (complex holomorphic or real smooth) completely integrable distributions are considered. The integral manifolds of such distributions are totally null and totally geodesics 2-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-21 Adam Chudecki

In a 4-manifold, the composition of a Riemannian Einstein metric with an almost paracomplex structure that is isometric and parallel, defines a neutral metric that is conformally flat and scalar flat. In this paper, we study hypersurfaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-22 Nikos Georgiou

Reflection in a line in Euclidean 3-space defines an almost paracomplex structure on the space of all oriented lines, isometric with respect to the canonical neutral Kaehler metric. Beyond Euclidean 3-space, the space of oriented geodesics…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Nikos Georgiou , Brendan Guilfoyle

We first study $f$-biharmonicity of totally umbilical hypersurfaces in a generic Riemannian manifold and then prove that any totally umbilical proper $f$-biharmonic hypersurface in a nonpositively curved manifold has to be noncompact. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Ze-Ping Wang , Li-Hua Qin , Xue-Yi Chen

In Part I, we develop the notions of a Moebius structure and a conformal Cartan geometry, establish an equivalence between them; we use them in Part II to study submanifolds of conformal manifolds in arbitrary dimension and codimension. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-30 Francis E. Burstall , David M. J. Calderbank

Restrictions are obtained on the topology of a compact divergence-free null hypersurface in a four-dimensional Lorentzian manifold whose Ricci tensor is zero or satisfies some weaker conditions. This is done by showing that each null…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Alan D. Rendall

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

In a recent paper, a new conformally flat metric was introduced, describing an expanding scalar field in a spherically symmetric geometry. The spacetime can be interpreted as a Schwarzschild-like model with an apparent horizon surrounding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-16 Pantelis S. Apostolopoulos , Christos Tsipogiannis

Let $\mathbb{Q}_3$ be the complex 3-quadric endowed with its standard complex conformal structure. We study the complex conformal geometry of isotropic curves in $\mathbb{Q}_3$. By an isotropic curve we mean a nonconstant holomorphic map…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-07 Emilio Musso , Lorenzo Nicolodi

We show that a compact Riemannian $3$-manifold $M$ with strictly convex simply connected boundary and sectional curvature $K\leq a\leq 0$ is isometric to a convex domain in a complete simply connected space of constant curvature $a$,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-10 Mohammad Ghomi , Joel Spruck

We give a topological interpretation of the space of $L^2$-harmonic forms on Manifold with flat ends. It is an answer to an old question of J. Dodziuk. We also give a Chern-Gauss-Bonnet formula for the $L^2$-Euler characteristic of some of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Gilles Carron

In this article, we prove several results about the extension to the boundary of conformal immersions from an open subset $\Omega$ of a Riemannian manifold $L$, into another Riemannian manifold $N$ of the same dimension. In dimension $n…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-06 Charles Frances

We give an explicit description of the Fefferman metric for twistor CR manifolds in terms of Riemannian structures on the base conformal 3-manifolds. As an application, we prove that chains and null chains on twistor CR manifolds project to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Taiji Marugame

In this article, we summarize the results on symmetric conformal geometries. We review the results following from the general theory of symmetric parabolic geometries and prove several new results for symmetric conformal geometries. In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-08 Jan Gregorovič , Lenka Zalabová

We introduce conformal anti-invariant submersions from almost Hermitian manifolds onto Riemannian manifolds. We give examples, investigate the geometry of foliations which are arisen from the definition of a conformal submersion and find…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-23 Mehmet Akif Akyol , Bayram Sahin
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