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Given a globally hyperbolic spacetime endowed with a complete lightlike Killing vector field and a complete Cauchy hypersurface, we characterize the points which can be connected by geodesics. A straightforward consequence is the geodesic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-06 Rossella Bartolo , Anna Maria Candela , José Luis Flores

We generalize a result of Paulin on the Gromov boundary of hyperbolic groups to the Morse boundary of proper, maximal hierarchically hyperbolic spaces admitting cocompact group actions by isometries. Namely we show that if the Morse…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Sarah C. Mousley , Jacob Russell

Given a closed manifold of dimension at least three, with non trivial homotopy group \pi_3(M) and a generic metric, we prove that there is a finite collection of harmonic spheres with Morse index bound one, with sum of their energies…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Yuchin Sun

We consider closed hypersurfaces smoothly immersed in hyperbolic manifolds up to homotopy and commensurability. We prove that if a closed hyperbolic manifold $M$ contains a sequence of asymptotically geodesic hypersurfaces, then $\pi_1(M)$…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Xiaolong Hans Han , Ruojing Jiang

We study notions of conjugate points along timelike geodesics in the synthetic setting of Lorentzian (pre-)length spaces, inspired by earlier work for metric spaces by Shankar--Sormani. After preliminary considerations on convergence of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-16 James D. E. Grant , Michael Kunzinger , Argam Ohanyan , Yasmin Schinnerl , Roland Steinbauer

We consider the existence of simple closed geodesics or "geodesic knots" in finite volume orientable hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Previous results show that at least one geodesic knot always exists [Bull. London Math. Soc. 31(1) (1999) 81-86],…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-01-02 Sally M Kuhlmann

We study properties of "hyperbolic directions" in groups acting cocompactly on properly convex domains in real projective space, from three different perspectives simultaneously: the (coarse) metric geometry of the Hilbert metric, the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Mitul Islam , Theodore Weisman

In this note we show that for any hyperbolic surface S, the number of geodesics of length bounded above by L in the mapping class group orbit of a fixed closed geodesic with a single double point is asymptotic to L raised to the dimension…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-07-05 Igor Rivin

Under a Morse index condition we prove symmetry results for solutions of a nonlinear mixed boundary condition elliptic problem. As an intermediate step we relate the Morse index of a solution to a mixed boundary condition linear eigenvalue…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-10 Lucio Damascelli , Filomena Pacella

Addressing a question of Zaremsky, we give conditions on a finite simplicial graph which guarantee that the associated matching arc complex is connected and hyperbolic.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Javier Aramayona , Rodrigo de Pool , Alejandro Fernández

In this paper, by studying certain isometries on globally hyperbolic planes, we prove that if $p$ is a timelike pole on a class A Lorentzian 2-torus, then there exists a closed timelike geodesic passing through $p$ with any preassigned free…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-05-30 Lu Peng , Liang Jin , Xiaojun Cui

We provide general closed-form formulas for the index of type-A Lie poset algebras corresponding to posets of restricted height. Furthermore, we provide a combinatorial recipe for constructing all posets corresponding to type-A Frobenius…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-30 Vincent E. Coll, , Nick W. Mayers

We introduce and geometrically characterize the notion of uniformly perfect Morse boundary for proper geodesic metric spaces. As a unifying result, we prove that the Morse boundary of any finitely generated, non-elementary group is…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Suzhen Han , Qing Liu

The first examples of totally geodesic Seifert surfaces are constructed for hyperbolic knots and links, including both free and totally knotted surfaces. Then it is proved that two bridge knot complements cannot contain totally geodesic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Colin Adams , Eric Schoenfeld

This paper continues a geometric study of Harvey's Complex of Curves, whose ultimate goal is to apply the theory of hyperbolic spaces and groups to algorithmic questions for the Mapping Class Group and geometric properties of Kleinian…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Howard A. Masur , Yair N. Minsky

We determine, for all three-dimensional non-unimodular Lie groups equipped with a Lorentzian metric, the set of homogeneous geodesics through a point. Together with the results of [C] and [CM2], this leads to the full classification of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-01-09 Giovanni Calvaruso , Rosa Anna Marinosci

The non-trivial complete totally geodesic submanifolds of the complex hyperbolic plane $\mathbb H_{\mathbb C}^2$ are the complex geodesics and the real planes. We present two new proofs for this fact. One is a short proof based on an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Hugo C. Botós , Carlos H. Grossi

In this work it is shown that a necessary condition for the completeness of the geodesics of left invariant pseudo-Riemannian metrics on Lie groups is also sufficient in the case of 3-dimensional unimodular Lie groups, and not sufficient…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Shirley Bromberg , Alberto Medina

We show that if two closed hyperbolic surfaces (not necessarily orientable or even connected) have the same Laplace spectrum, then for every length they have the same number of orientation-preserving geodesics and the same number of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-08 Peter G. Doyle , Juan Pablo Rossetti

We describe the "hyperbolic" properties of a riemann surface lamination M canonically associated to every compact three manifolds of curvature less than 1. More precisely, if the geodesic flow is the phase space attached to an ordinary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-31 Francois Labourie