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Chru\'sciel, Isenberg, and Pollack constructed a class of vacuum cosmological spacetimes that do not admit Cauchy surfaces with constant mean curvature. We prove that, for sufficiently large values of the gluing parameter, these examples…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-01 Madeleine Burkhart , Martin Lesourd , Daniel Pollack

Let N be a (n+1)-dimensional globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifold with a compact Cauchy hypersurface. We consider curvature flows in N with different curvature functions F (including the mean curvature, the gauss curvature and the second…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-13 Matthias Makowski

We prove that for any convex globally hyperbolic maximal (GHM) anti-de Sitter (AdS) 3-dimensional space-time $N$ with particles (cone singularities of angles less than $\pi$ along time-like curves), the complement of the convex core in $N$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-26 Qiyu Chen , Jean-Marc Schlenker

In this paper, we classify the hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{S}^{n}\times \mathbb{R}$ and $\mathbb{H}^{n}\times\mathbb{R}$, $n\neq 3$, with $g$ distinct constant principal curvatures, $g\in\{1,2,3\}$, where $\mathbb{S}^{n}$ and $\mathbb{H}^{n}$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Rosa Chaves , Eliane Santos

We show that a given $x:M^n\to \bar{M}^{n+1}=I\times_{\phi}F^{n}$ closed spacelike hypersurface with constant mean curvature $H$ and warping function $\phi$ satisfying \phi ''\geq \ma\{H\phi'',0\}$ is either minimal or a spacelike slice…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. Barros , A. Brasil , A. Caminha

The purpose of this article is to present a result on the existence of Cauchy temporal functions invariant by the action of a compact group of conformal transformations in arbitrary globally hyperbolic manifolds. Moreover, the previous…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-19 Olaf Müller

We use integrable systems techniques to study the singularities of timelike non-minimal constant mean curvature (CMC) surfaces in the Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space. The singularities arise at the boundary of the Birkhoff big cell of the loop…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-18 David Brander , Martin Svensson

Conformal mappings of surfaces of constant mean curvature onto compact bounded background spaces are constructed for Minkowski space-time and for Schwarzschild black hole spacetimes. In the black hole example, it is found that initial data…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert H. Gowdy

This paper addresses strong cosmic censorship for spacetimes with self-gravitating collisionless matter, evolving from surface-symmetric compact initial data. The global dynamics exhibit qualitatively different features according to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-30 Mihalis Dafermos , Alan D. Rendall

We prove long-time existence for mean curvature flow of a smooth $n$-dimensional spacelike submanifold of an $n+m$ dimensional manifold whose metric satisfies the timelike curvature condition.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Brendan Guilfoyle , Wilhelm Klingenberg

The group of conformal diffeomorphisms and the group of causal automorphisms on two-dimensional globally hyperbolic spacetimes are clarified. It is shown that if spacetimes have non-compact Cauchy surfaces, then the groups are subgroups of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Do-Hyung Kim

Given a globally hyperbolic spacetime $M$, we show the existence of a {\em smooth spacelike} Cauchy hypersurface $S$ and, thus, a global diffeomorphism between $M$ and $\R \times S$.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Antonio N. Bernal , Miguel Sánchez

In 1996, Huisen-Yau proved that every three-dimensional, asymptotically Schwarzschilden manifold with positive mass is uniquely foliated by stable spheres of constant mean curvature and they defined the center of mass using this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-21 Christopher Nerz

Spacelike surfaces in Generalized Robertson-Walker spacetimes whose mean curvature function satisfies a natural nonlinear inequality are analyzed. Several uniqueness and nonexistence results for such compact spacelike surfaces are proved.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-09 Alfonso Romero , Rafael M. Rubio

We find complete hypersurfaces of constant curvature in hyperbolic space with a prescribed asymptotic boundary at infinity for a general class of (elliptic) curvature functions which includes the higher order mean curvatures and their…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-12-15 Joel Spruck , Bo Guan

All three-manifolds are known to occur as Cauchy surfaces of asymptotically flat vacuum spacetimes and of spacetimes with positive-energy sources. We prove here the conjecture that general relativity does not allow an observer to probe the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 John L. Friedman , Kristin Schleich , Donald M. Witt

An intrinsic time in Geometrodynamics is obtained with using a scaled Dirac's mapping. By addition of a background metric, one can construct a scalar field. It is suitable to play a role of intrinsic time. Cauchy problem was successfully…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-31 Alexander E. Pavlov

We study the geometry of a weak Riemannian metric on the infinite dimensional manifold of compact spacelike Cauchy hypersurfaces in a globally hyperbolic spacetime. We show that the geodesic distance (i.e. the infimum of lengths of paths…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Daniel Monclair

We introduce a new curvature condition for high-codimension submanifolds of a Riemannian ambient space, called quasi-parallel mean curvature (QPMC). The class of submanifolds with QPMC includes all CMC hypersurfaces and submanifolds with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Jean Lagacé , Stephen Lynch

We study constant mean curvature Lorentzian hypersurfaces of $\mathbb{R}^{1,d+1}$ from the point of view of its Cauchy problem. We completely classify the spherically symmetric solutions, which include among them a manifold isometric to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-14 Willie Wai-Yeung Wong