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We review recent work on the local geometry and optimal regularity of Lorentzian manifolds with bounded curvature. Our main results provide an estimate of the injectivity radius of an observer, and a local canonical foliations by CMC…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-20 Philippe G. LeFloch

We establish a uniform estimate for the injectivity radius of the past null cone of a point in a general Lorentzian manifold foliated by spacelike hypersurfaces and satisfying an upper curvature bound. Precisely, our main assumptions are,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-01 James D. E. Grant , Philippe G. LeFloch

The paper is concerned with regularity properties of boundaries of causal pasts of points in a 3+1-dimensional Einstein-vacuum spacetime. In a Lorentzian manifold such boundaries play crucial role in propagation of linear and nonlinear…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. Klainerman , I. Rodnianski

We investigate the local regularity of pointed spacetimes, that is, time-oriented Lorentzian manifolds in which a point and a future-oriented, unit timelike vector (an observer) are selected. Our main result covers the class of Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-13 Bing-Long Chen , Philippe G. LeFloch

A lower-bound estimate of injectivity radius for complete Riemannian manifolds is discussed in a pure geometric viewpoint and is applied to study tangent cones at infinity of certain gradient Ricci solitons. We also study the asymptotic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-25 Chih-Wei Chen

We prove for the first time a pointwise lower estimate of the normal injectivity radius of an embedded hypersurface in an arbitrary Riemannian manifold. Main applications include: (i) a pointwise lower estimate of the graphing radius of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Sebastian Boldt , Batu Güneysu , Stefano Pigola

The injectivity radius of a manifold is an important quantity, both from a theoretical point of view and in terms of numerical applications. It is the largest possible radius within which all geodesics are unique and length-minimizing. In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-06 Ralf Zimmermann , Jakob Stoye

In this paper we prove the following pointwise and curvature-free estimates on convexity radius, injectivity radius and local behavior of geodesics in a complete Riemannian manifold $M$: 1) the convexity radius of $p$,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-30 Shicheng Xu

We prove in a direct, geometric way that for any compatible Riemannian metric on a Lie manifold the injectivity radius is positive

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-30 Paolo Antonini , Guido De Philippis , Nicola Gigli

In this short note, we study the injectivity radius bound for three dimensional complete and non-compact Riemannian manifold with good leaf foliations and with bounded curvature up to first order. We obtain the injectivity bound by using…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-03-18 Li Ma

The ratio of convexity radius over injectivity radius may be made arbitrarily small within the class of compact Riemannian manifolds of any fixed dimension at least two. This is proved using Gulliver's method of constructing manifolds with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-22 James Dibble

In this paper, we derive a general regularity estimate for any 4-d spacetime, in terms of a priori bounds of the Ricci curvature and Lie derivative of the Lorentzian metric with respect to an arbitrary timelike vector field.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Bing-Long Chen

In this paper we prove that if a point $p$ in a complete Riemannian manifold is not a cut point of any point whose distance to $p$ is $r$, then the injectivity radius of $p$ is strictly large than $r$. As a corollary we give a positive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-02 Shicheng Xu

We explore the relation among volume, curvature and properness of a $m$-dimensional isometric immersion in a Riemannian manifold. We show that, when the $L^p$-norm of the mean curvature vector is bounded for some $m \leq p\leq \infty$, and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-02 Vicent Gimeno , Vicente Palmer

Assuming minimal regularity assumptions on the data, we revisit the classical problem of finding isometric immersions into the Minkowski spacetime for hypersurfaces of a Lorentzian manifold. Our approach encompasses metrics having Sobolev…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-12-28 Philippe G. LeFloch , Cristinel Mardare , Sorin Mardare

Consider the deformation of the standard Lorentzian metric on the anti de-Sitter space along the fibers of the Hopf fibration. We study the universal covering of this Lorentzian manifold to exclude a priori presence of time-like cycles. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-07 A. V. Podobryaev

Arguably, geodesics are the most important geometric objects on a differentiable manifold. They describe candidates for shortest paths and are guaranteed to be unique shortest paths when the starting velocity stays within the so-called…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Jakob Stoye , Ralf Zimmermann

We investigate regularization of riemannian metrics by mollification. Assuming both-sided bounds on the Ricci tensor and a lower injectivity radius bound we obtain a uniform estimate on the change of the sectional curvature. Actually, our…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-30 Daniel Luckhardt , Jan-Bernhard Kordaß

We prove that a complete Riemannian manifold with a positive uniform lower bound on injectivity radius and a positive uniform lower bound on Ricci curvature admits an $L^\infty$-close (bi-Lipschitz) smooth metric with two-sided Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Maja Gwozdz

In this paper we study the injectivity radius based at a fixed point along Weil-Petersson geodesics. We show that the square root of the injectivity radius based at a fixed point is $ 0.3884$-Lipschitz on Teichm\"uller space endowed with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Yunhui Wu
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