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We report a holographic study of a two-dimensional dilaton gravity theory with the Dirichlet boundary condition for the cases of non-vanishing and vanishing cosmological constants. Our result shows that the boundary theory of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Su-Kuan Chu , Chen-Te Ma , Chih-Hung Wu

We first summarize the characterization of smooth spacelike spherically symmetric constant mean curvature (SS-CMC) hypersurfaces in the Schwarzschild spacetime and Kruskal extension. Then use the characterization to prove special SS-CMC…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-25 Kuo-Wei Lee , Yng-Ing Lee

We define and study on Lorentz manifolds a family of covariant diffusions in which the quadratic variation is locally determined by the curvature. This allows the interpretation of the diffusion effect on a particle by its interaction with…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Jacques Franchi , Yves Le Jan

In this note we obtain a formula for the sectional curvature on an arbitrary two-dimensional smooth manifold $M$ equipped with a Lorentzian metric $g$.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-10 A. Z. Ali , Yu. L. Sachkov

The Lorentzian length of a timelike curve connecting both endpoints of a classical computation is a function of the path taken through Minkowski spacetime. The associated runtime difference is due to time-dilation: the phenomenon whereby an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-27 Jacob D. Biamonte

A classical result attributed to Joachimsthal in 1846 states that if two surfaces intersect with constant angle along a line of curvature of one surface, then the curve of intersection is also a line of curvature of the other surface. In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-21 Brendan Guilfoyle , Wilhelm Klingenberg

The paper is devoted to differential geometric invariants determining a Frenet curve in up to a direct similarity These invariants can be presented by the Euclidean curvatures in terms of an arc lengths of the spherical indicatrices. Then,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-30 Fatma Gökçelik , Seher Kaya , Yusuf Yayli , F. Nejat Ekmekci

We show that in Lorentzian manifolds, sectional curvature bounds of the form $\mathcal{R}\le K\,$, as defined by Andersson and Howard, are closely tied to space-time convex and $\lambda$-convex ($\lambda>0$) functions, as defined by Gibbons…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-10 Stephanie B. Alexander , William A. Karr

We consider a generalization of a duality symmetric model proposed by Schwarz and Sen. It is based on enlarging the model with a dynamical vector field being a time-like component of a local Lorentz frame. This allows one to preserve the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 P. Pasti , D. Sorokin , M. Tonin

An alternative method is proposed for deriving the time dependent Schroedinger equation from the pictures of wave and matrix mechanics. The derivation is of a mixed classical quantum character, since time is treated as a classical variable,…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Luca Nanni

We consider defining time as a function of a cyclical field, an abstraction of a clock. The definition of time corresponds to a novel interpretation of the relationship between space-time coordinates of observers at different locations in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-29 Yaneer Bar-Yam

In this paper we introduce a definition of the pre-Schwarzian and the Schwarzian derivatives of any locally univalent harmonic mapping $f$ in the complex plane without assuming any additional condition on the (second complex) dilatation…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2012-10-09 Rodrigo Hernández , María J. Martín

We review some recent results on the mean curvature flows of Lagrangian submanifolds from the perspective of geometric partial differential equations. These include global existence and convergence results, characterizations of first-time…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-19 Mu-Tao Wang

In the study of one dimensional dynamical systems one often assumes that the functions involved have a negative Schwarzian derivative. In this paper we consider a generalization of this condition. Specifically, we consider the interval…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-07-14 Benjamin Webb

Based on the concept of curved spacetime in Einsteinian General Relativity, the field theories and their quantum theories in the curved octonion spaces etc are discussed. The research results discover the close relationships of the curved…

General Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 Zihua Weng

We prove the mean curvature flow of the graph of a symplectomorphism between Riemann surfaces converges smoothly as time approaches infinity.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mu-Tao Wang

Traditional derivation of the material time derivative of volume, surface, and line integrals relies upon the notion of a referential configuration of continuum. Such a notion, however, is artificial and, probably, somewhat misleading in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-07-23 K. Y. Volokh

We resolve the entire gravitational field;i.e. the Riemann curvature into its electric and magnetic parts. In general, the vacuum Einstein equation is symmetric in active and passive electric parts. However it turns out that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Naresh Dadhich

We introduce and study \emph{brachistochrone-ruled timelike surfaces} in Newtonian and relativistic spacetimes. Starting from the classical cycloidal brachistochrone in a constant gravitational field, we construct a Newtonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-06 Ferhat Taş

We describe how to approximate the Riemann curvature tensor as well as sectional curvatures on possibly infinite-dimensional shape spaces that can be thought of as Riemannian manifolds. To this end, we extend the variational time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Alexander Effland , Behrend Heeren , Martin Rumpf , Benedikt Wirth