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In this paper, we study isoparametric hypersurfaces in Finsler space forms by investigating focal points, tubes and parallel hypersurfaces of submanifolds. We prove that the focal submanifolds of isoparametric hypersurfaces are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-30 Qun He , Yali Chen , Songting Yin , Tingting Ren

In this paper we develop the notion of screen isoparametric hypersurface for null hypersurfaces of Robertson-Walker spacetimes. Using this formalism we derive Cartan identities for the screen principal curvatures of null screen…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-22 Matias Navarro , Oscar Palmas , Didier Solis

The paper establishes a sharp and rigid isoperimetric-type inequality in Lorentzian signature under the assumption of Ricci curvature bounded below in the timelike directions. The inequality is proved in the high generality of Lorentzian…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Fabio Cavalletti , Andrea Mondino

In this paper, we are concerned with light-like extremal surfaces in curved spacetimes. It is interesting to find that under a diffeomorphic transformation of variables, the light-like extremal surfaces can be described by a system of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Shou-Jun Huang , Chun-Lei He

In this paper we give a complete local parametric classification of the hypersurfaces with dimension at least three of a space form that carry a totally geodesic foliation of codimension one. A classification under the assumption that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-22 Marcos Dajczer , Ruy Tojeiro

We consider general relativity with cosmological constant minimally coupled to the electromagnetic field and assume that the four-dimensional space-time manifold is a warped product of two surfaces with Lorentzian and Euclidean signature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-17 D. E. Afanasev , M. O. Katanaev

This paper belongs to the realm of conformal geometry and deals with Euclidean submanifolds that admit smooth variations that are infinitesimally conformal. Conformal variations of Euclidean submanifolds is a classical subject in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-19 M. Dajczer , M. I. Jimenez

Physical reasons suggested in \cite{Ha-Ha} for the \emph{Quantum Gravity Problem} lead us to study \emph{type-changing metrics} on a manifold. The most interesting cases are \emph{Transverse Riemann-Lorentz Manifolds}. Here we study the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-26 E. Aguirre , V. Fernández , J. Lafuente

We study the geometry of null hypersurfaces in indefinite complex contact manifolds. We prove several classification results for a variety of well-known null hypersurfaces, including the totally umbilic, totally screen umbilic, and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-21 Samuel Ssekajja

Mixed 3-structures are odd-dimensional analogues of paraquaternionic structures. They appear naturally on lightlike hypersurfaces of almost paraquaternionic hermitian manifolds. We study invariant and anti-invariant submanifolds in a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-30 Stere Ianus , Liviu Ornea , Gabriel Eduard Vilcu

In this paper, we first give some new characterizations of geodesic spheres in the hyperbolic space by the condition that hypersurface has constant weighted shifted mean curvatures, or constant weighted shifted mean curvature ratio, which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-23 Weimin Sheng , Yinhang Wang , Jie Wu

In this paper, we investigate space-like codimension-two submanifolds of the Lorentz-Minkowski space $\mathbb{E}_1^{n+2}$ constrained to lie on the light-like hypercylinder $\mathcal{LC}^n \times \mathbb{R}$ over the light cone…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Ali Gineli , Hazal Yürük , Nurettin Cenk Turgay

Submanifolds in Lorentz-Minkowski space are investigated from various mathematical viewpoints and are of interest also in relativity theory. We define the hyperbolic surface and the de Sitter surface of a curve in the spacelike hypersurface…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Shyuichi Izumiya , Ana Claudia Nabarro , Andrea de Jesus Sacramento

A mixed type surface is a connected regular surface in a Lorentzian 3-manifold with non-empty spacelike and timelike point sets. The induced metric of a mixed type surface is a signature-changing metric, and their lightlike points may be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-26 Atsufumi Honda , Kentaro Saji , Keisuke Teramoto

In this article spacelike hypersurfaces immersed in twisted product spacetimes $I\times_f F$ with complete fiber are studied. Several conditions ensuring global hyperbolicity are presented, as well as a relation that needs to hold on each…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-17 Alberto Soria

Explicit representations of complex structures on closed manifolds are valuable, but relatively rare in the literature. Using isoparametric theory, we construct complex structures on isoparametric hypersurfaces with $g=4, m=1$ in the unit…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Chao Qian , Zizhou Tang , Wenjiao Yan

It is shown that the space of null geodesics of a causally simple Lorentzian manifold is Hausdorff if it admits an open conformal embedding into a globally hyperbolic spacetime. This provides an obstruction to conformal embeddings of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-20 Jakob Hedicke , Stefan Suhr

In this article we develop some elementary aspects of a theory of symmetry in sub-Lorentzian geometry. First of all we construct invariants characterizing isometric classes of sub-Lorentzian contact 3 manifolds. Next we characterize vector…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-20 Marek Grochowski , Ben Warhurst

We investigate a variational problem in the Lorentz-Minkowski space $\l^3$ whose critical points are spacelike surfaces with constant mean curvature and making constant contact angle with a given support surface along its common boundary.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Rafael López , Juncheol Pyo

In this paper, we study biconservative hypersurfaces in $\mathbb S^{n}$ and $\mathbb H^{n}$. Further, we obtain complete explicit classification of biconservative hypersurfaces in $4$-dimensional Riemannian space form with exactly three…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-20 Nurettin Cenk Turgay , Abhitosh Upadhyay