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We characterize those spacetimes which admit a isometric (or conformal) embedding in some Lorentz-Minkowski space L^N. In particular, any globally hyperbolic spacetime can be isometrically embedded in L^N. This is proven by a result of its…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-11 Olaf Müller , Miguel Sánchez

In this paper we study Moebius applicable surfaces, i.e., conformally immersed surfaces in Moebius 3-space which admit deformations preserving the Moebius metric. We show new characterizations of Willmore surfaces, Bonnet surfaces and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Atsushi Fujioka , Jun-ichi Inoguchi

Photon surfaces are timelike, totally umbilic hypersurfaces of Lorentzian spacetimes. In the first part of this paper, we locally characterize all possible photon surfaces in a class of static, spherically symmetric spacetimes that includes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-01 Carla Cederbaum , Gregory J. Galloway

Defining Lorentzian Sabban frame of the unit speed time-like curves on de Sitter 2-space $\mathbb{S}^{2}_{1}$ and introducing space-like height function on the unit speed time-like curves on $\mathbb{S}^{2}_{1}$, the invariants of the unit…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Murat Babaarslan , Yusuf Yayli

We prove that the leaves of an inverse mean curvature flow provide a foliation of a future end of a cosmological spacetime $N$ under the necessary and sufficent assumptions that $N$ satisfies a future mean curvature barrier condition and a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-09-26 Claus Gerhardt

In this paper we classify those three-dimensional Riemannian Lie groups which admit harmonic morphisms to surfaces.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-23 Sigmundur Gudmundsson , Martin Svensson

A complete classification of locally spherically symmetric four-dimensional Lorentzian spacetimes is given in terms of their local conformal symmetries. The general solution is given in terms of canonical metric types and the associated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Brian O. J. Tupper , Aidan J. Keane , Jaume Carot

In this paper, first we study on Bour's theorem for four kinds of timelike helicoidal surfaces in 4-dimensional Minkowski space. Secondly, we analyse the geometric properties of these isometric surfaces having same Gauss map. Also, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Burcu Bektaş Demirci , Murat Babaarslan , Yasin Küçükarikan

A theorem about local in time existence of spacelike foliations with prescribed mean curvature in cosmological spacetimes will be proved. The time function of the foliation is geometrically defined and fixes the diffeomorphism invariance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Oliver Henkel

Lagrangian curves in 4-space entertain intriguing relationships with second order deformation of plane curves under the special affine group and null curves in a 3-dimensional Lorentzian space form. We provide a natural affine symplectic…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-12-24 Emilio Musso , Evelyne Hubert

We prove a splitting theorem for Lorentzian pre-length spaces with global non-positive timelike curvature. Additionally, we extend the first variation formula to spaces with any timelike curvature bound, either from above or below, and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Joe Barton , Tobias Beran , Mauricio Che , Sebastian Gieger , Jona Röhrig , Felix Rott

For surfaces without boundary, nonlocal notions of directional and mean curvatures have been recently given. Here, we develop alternative notions, special cases of which apply to surfaces with boundary. Our main tool is a new fractional or…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-20 Roberto Paroni , Paolo Podio-Guidugli , Brian Seguin

In this paper, we establish equiform differential geometry of space and timelike curves in 4-dimensional Minkowski space. We obtain some conditions for these curves. Also, general helices with respect to their equiform curvatures are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-13 H. S. Abdel-Aziz , M. Khalifa Saad , A. A. Abdel-Salam

We consider a special class of spacelike surfaces in the Minkowski 4-space which are one-parameter systems of meridians of the rotational hypersurface with timelike or spacelike axis. We call these surfaces meridian surfaces of elliptic or…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-15 Georgi Ganchev , Velichka Milousheva

In this paper we provide a family of algebraic space-like surfaces in the three dimensional anti de Sitter space that shows that this Lorentzian manifold admits algebraic maximal examples of any order. Then, we classify all the space-like…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-03-16 Oscar Perdomo

We consider a special class of timelike surfaces in the four-dimensional Minkowski space which are one-parameter systems of meridians of rotational hypersurfaces with spacelike axis and call them meridian surfaces of hyperbolic type. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Victoria Bencheva , Velichka Milousheva

We study those Lagrangian surfaces in complex Euclidean space which are foliated by circles or by straight lines. The former, which we call cyclic, come in three types, each one being described by means of, respectively, a planar curve, a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-18 Henri Anciaux , Pascal Romon

It is shown that time-harmonic motions of spherical and toroidal surfaces can be deformed non-locally without loosing the existence of infinitely many constants of the motion.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Jens Hoppe

The geometric Cauchy problem for a class of surfaces in a pseudo-Riemannian manifold of dimension 3 is to find the surface which contains a given curve with a prescribed tangent bundle along the curve. We consider this problem for constant…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-03-15 David Brander , Martin Svensson

In this contribution, we study spacetimes of cosmological interest, without making any symmetry assumptions. We prove a rigid Hawking singularity theorem for positive cosmological constant, which sharpens known results. In particular, it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-16 Gregory J. Galloway , Leonardo García-Heveling