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In the Minkowski space, we consider a compact, spacelike hypersurface with boundary, which can be written as a graph on a spacelike hyperplane. We prove that, if its $k$-th mean curvature is constant, and its boundary is on the hyperplane…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Shanze Gao

The aim of this manuscript is to obtain rigidity and non-existence results for parabolic spacelike submanifolds with causal mean curvature vector field in orthogonally splitted spacetimes, and in particular, in globally hyperbolic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Alma L. Albujer , Jónatan Herrera , Rafael M. Rubio

The aim of this survey is to give an overview on the geometry of Einstein maximal globally hyperbolic 2+1 spacetimes of arbitrary curvature, conatining a complete Cauchy surface of finite type. In particular a specialization to the finite…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Riccardo Benedetti , Francesco Bonsante

In this work, we study the geometric properties of spacelike foliations by hypersurfaces on a Lorentz manifold. We investigate conditions for the leaves being stable, totally geodesic or totally umbilical. We consider that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-21 Aldir Brasil , Sharief Deshmukh , Euripedes Carvalho da Silva , Paulo Sousa

We extend Beem's three completeness notions -- finite compactness, timelike Cauchy completeness, and Condition A -- originally defined for spacetimes, to Lorentzian length spaces and study their relationships. We prove that finite…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Keita Takahashi

We study constant mean curvature spacelike hypersurfaces and in particular maximal hypersurfaces immersed in pp-wave spacetimes satisfying the timelike convergence condition. We prove the non-existence of compact spacelike hypersurfaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-29 José A. S. Pelegrín , Alfonso Romero , Rafael M. Rubio

We study hypersurfaces with fractional mean curvature in N-dimensional Euclidean space. These hypersurfaces are critical points of the fractional perimeter under a volume constraint. We use local inversion arguments to prove existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-06 Ignace Aristide Minlend , Alassane Niang , El Hadji Abdoulaye Thiam

Spacetimes with collisionless matter evolving from data on a compact Cauchy surface with hyperbolic symmetry are shown to be timelike and null geodesically complete in the expanding direction, provided the data satisfy a certain size…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerhard Rein

In this manuscript we investigate the intrinsically flat (space-flat) spacetimes as viable cosmological models. We show that they have a natural geometric structure which is suitable to describe inhomogeneous matter distributions forming a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-25 Eduardo Bittencourt , Leandro G. Gomes , Grasiele B. Santos

Minkowski space is the local model of 3 dimensionnal flat spacetimes. Recent progress in the description of globally hyperbolic flat spacetimes showed strong link between Lorentzian geometry and Teichm{\"u}ller space. We notice that…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-05-19 Léo Brunswic

In this sequel paper we give a shorter, second proof of the monotonicity of the Hawking mass for time flat surfaces under spacelike uniformly area expanding flows in spacetimes that satisfy the dominant energy condition. We also include a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-18 Hubert L. Bray , Jeffrey L. Jauregui , Marc Mars

We prove that any hyperbolic end with particles (cone singularities along infinite curves of angles less than $\pi$) admits a unique foliation by constant Gauss curvature surfaces. Using a form of duality between hyperbolic ends with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-25 Qiyu Chen , Jean-Marc Schlenker

Conformally flat spherically symmetric cosmological models representing a charged perfect fluid as well as a bulk viscous fluid distribution have been obtained. The cosmological constant \Lambda is found positive and is a decreasing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Anirudh Pradhan , Om Prakash Pandey

Existence of maximal hypersurfaces and of foliations by maximal hypersurfaces is proven in two classes of asymptotically flat spacetimes which possess a one parameter group of isometries whose orbits are timelike ``near infinity''. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 P. T. Chrusciel , R. Wald

We give a geometric criterion for the breakdown of an Einstein vacuum space-time foliated by a constant mean curvature, or maximal, foliation. More precisely we show that the foliated space-time can be extended as long as the the second…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-01-28 S. Klainerman , I. Rodnianski

This chapter is an up-to-date account of results on globally hyperbolic spacetimes, and serves several purposes. We begin with the exposition of results from a foundational level, where the main tools are order theory and general topology,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Felix Finster , Albert Much , Kyriakos Papadopoulos

In this paper, we describe a family of embedded hypersurfaces with constant mean curvature (CMC) in the $(n+1)$-dimensional unit sphere. In the process, we provide evidence for new CMC embedded examples. In particular, for some examples…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-19 Oscar Perdomo

This paper investigates the volume-preserving harmonic mean curvature flow in asymptotically Schwarzschild spaces. We demonstrate the long-time existence and exponential convergence of this flow with a coordinate sphere of large radius…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Yaoting Gui , Yuqiao Li , Jun Sun

A $k$-harmonic map is a critical point of the $k$-energy in the space of smooth maps between two Riemannian manifolds. In this paper, we prove that if $M^{n} (n\ge 3)$ is a CMC proper triharmonic hypersurface with at most three distinct…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Hang Chen , Zhida Guan

We prove that there are no restrictions on the spatial topology of asymptotically flat solutions of the vacuum Einstein equations in (n+1)-dimensions. We do this by gluing a solution of the vacuum constraint equations on an arbitrary…

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