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Colliding Einstein-Maxwell-Scalar fields need not necessarily doomed to become in a spacelike singularity. Examples are given in which null singularities emerge as intermediate stages between a spacelike singularity and a regular horizon.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ozay Gurtug , Mustafa Halilsoy

We show that the regularity of the gravitational metric tensor in spherically symmetric spacetimes cannot be lifted from $C^{0,1}$ to $C^{1,1}$ within the class of $C^{1,1}$ coordinate transformations in a neighborhood of a point of shock…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Moritz Reintjes , Blake Temple

We construct a contactomorphism of the standard sphere which does not have any translated points, providing a negative answer to a conjecture posed by Sandon.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-21 Dylan Cant

We study several aspects of fillings for links of general quotient singularities using Floer theory, including co-fillings, Weinstein fillings, strong fillings, exact fillings and exact orbifold fillings, focusing on non-existence of exact…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-14 Zhengyi Zhou

We describe combinatorial aspects of classical resolution of singularities that are free of characteristic and can be applied to singular foliations and vector fields as well as to functions and varieties. In particular, we give a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-20 Beatriz Molina-Samper

We classify contact manifolds $(M,\mathcal D)$ which are homogeneous under a connected semisimple Lie group $G$, and symmetric in the sense that there exists a contactomorphism of $(M,\mathcal D)$ normalizing $G$, fixing a point $o$ in $M$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Dmitri Alekseevsky , Claudio Gorodski

A contact form $\lambda$ on a closed contact three-manifold $(M,\xi)$ is called weakly convex if either it has no contractible Reeb orbit, or the first Chern class of $\xi$ vanishes on $\pi_2(M)$, and the index of every contractible Reeb…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Ana Kelly de Oliveira , Pedro A. S. Salomão

It is constructed a normal form for a class of real-smooth surfaces M\subset\mathbb{C}^{2} defined near a degenerate CR singularity.

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Valentin Burcea

We consider a static, axially symmetric, and asymptotically flat exact solution of the Einstein vacuum equations, known as the gamma metric. This is characterized by two constant parameters $m$ and $\gamma$. We find that the total energy…

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

We give a proof of, for the case of contact structures defined by global contact 1-forms, a Theorem stated by Eliashberg that for any overtwisted contact structure on a closed 3-manifold, its contact homology is 0. A different proof is also…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mei-Lin Yau

Phase singularities are locations where light is twisted like a corkscrew, with positive or negative topological charge depending on the twisting direction. Among the multitude of singularities arising in random wave fields, some can be…

Optics · Physics 2018-07-04 L. De Angelis , F. Alpeggiani , A. Di Falco , L. Kuipers

A $(2k+1)-$dimensional Lie algebra is called contact if it admits a one-form $\varphi$ such that $\varphi\wedge(d\varphi)^k\neq 0.$ Here, we extend recent work to describe a combinatorial procedure for generating contact, type-A Lie poset…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Nicholas W. Mayers , Nicholas Russoniello

Let A be an affine variety inside a complex N dimensional vector space which has an isolated singularity at the origin. The intersection of A with a very small sphere turns out to be a contact manifold called the link of A. Any contact…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-30 Mark McLean

Bourgeois proved in [5] that odd-dimensional tori admit a contact structure. We shall prove a more general result: Any odd-dimensional parallelisable closed manifold admits a contact structure. This implies that a solvmanifold $\Gamma…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Christoph Bock

In a Lorentz- and CPT-violating modification of electrodynamics, the fields of a moving charge are known to have unusual singularities. This raises the question of whether the singular behavior may include $\delta$-function contact terms,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-20 Karl Schober , Brett Altschul

The contact invariant is an element in the monopole Floer homology groups of an oriented closed three manifold canonically associated to a given contact structure. A non-vanishing contact invariant implies that the original contact…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-07-29 Mariano Echeverria

Let X be an affine normal variety with a C^*-action having only positive weights. Assume that X_{reg} has a symplectic 2-form w of weight l. We prove that, when l is not zero, the w is a unique symplectic 2-form of weight l up to…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-14 Yoshinori Namikawa

We show that all known naked singularities in spherically symmetric self-similar spacetimes arise as a result of singular initial matter distribution. This is a result of the peculiarity of the coordinate transformation that takes these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sanjay M. Wagh , Keshlan S. Govinder

The singularitiy inside a spherical charged black hole, coupled to a spherical, massless scalar field is studied numerically. The profile of the characteristic scalar field was taken to be a power of advanced time with an exponent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Lior M. Burko

We prove that for regular contact forms there exists a bijective correspondence between the $C^0$ limits of sequences of smooth strictly contact isotopies and the limits with respect to the contact distance of their corresponding…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-14 Augustin Banyaga , Peter Spaeth