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48 results for Lorentzian metric

Continuous Lorentzian metrics yield infinitesimal Minkowskian spacetimes.

problem Understanding spacetime properties from continuous Lorentzian metrics.
method Proving infinitesimal Minkowskianity for causally simple metric measure spacetimes.
result Continuous Lorentzian metrics result in spacetimes that are infinitesimally Minkowskian.

Defines new metrics for Lorentzian spaces and their convergence.

problem Defining metrics for Lorentzian spaces and their convergence.
method Abstract approach to Lorentzian Gromov-Hausdorff distance and convergence, defining bounded Lorentzian-metric spaces, and proving stability under GH limits.
result GH limits of Lorentzian-metric spaces are isometric and homeomorphic.

Study left-invariant Codazzi tensors and harmonic curvature on Lorentzian Lie groups.

problem Characterize left-invariant Codazzi tensors and harmonic curvature on Lorentzian Lie groups.
method Analyze left-invariant Codazzi tensors and harmonic curvature on Lorentzian Lie groups, classify Lie algebras and groups.
result New results on left-invariant Lorentzian metrics with harmonic curvature and non-parallel Ricci operator.

We consider Lie groups equipped with a left-invariant cyclic Lorentzian metric. As in the Riemannian case, in terms of homogeneous structures, such metrics can be considered as different as possible from bi-invariant metrics. We show that several results concerning cyclic Riemannian metrics do not extend to their Loren…

2015-04-29abs ↗pdf ↗

New concept of Lorentzian-Euclidean black holes and metric transitions explored.

problem Signature-changing spacetimes and their geometric properties.
method Introduction and analysis of Lorentzian-Euclidean black holes and transitions.
result Consistency of proper time to horizon in Lorentzian-Euclidean black holes.

Study left invariant Lorentzian metrics on 3D non-unimodular Lie groups.

problem Classify and analyze left invariant Lorentzian metrics on 3D non-unimodular Lie groups.
method Classify metrics up to automorphism, study curvature functions.
result Obtain Ricci operator, scalar curvature, and sectional curvatures as functions of metrics.

Study recovers Lorentzian metrics from boundary data, proving local rigidity.

problem Recovering a Lorentzian metric from scattering data on a boundary.
method Analyzes jet and real analyticity of metrics near lightlike points.
result Metric can be recovered up to gauge transformations near lightlike strictly convex points.

New connections found with specific torsion properties.

problem Understanding metric connections with specific torsion properties.
method Described Lorentzian manifolds with metric connections having parallel, skew-symmetric torsion.
result Found new Lorentzian manifolds with metric connections having parallel, skew-symmetric torsion.

Researchers extend the concept of metric spaces to Lorentzian spaces and prove the feasibility of their c-completion.

problem Extending the concept of metric spaces to Lorentzian spaces and proving their c-completion.
method Revisiting Lorentzian metric spaces, constructing c-completion, proving feasibility and endowing with Lorentzian metric space structure.
result The c-completion of Lorentzian metric spaces is feasible and well-suited, completing the original space in a precise sense.

The b-boundary is a mathematical tool used to attach a topological boundary to incomplete Lorentzian manifolds using a Riemaniann metric called the Schmidt metric on the frame bundle. In this paper, we give the general form of the Schmidt metric in the case of Lorentzian surfaces. Furthermore, we write the Ricci scalar…

2017-02-01abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, a survey of the recent results about the classification of the connected holonomy groups of the Lorentzian manifolds is given. A simplification of the construction of the Lorentzian metrics with all possible connected holonomy groups is obtained. As the applications, the Einstein equation, Lorentzian man…

2016-11-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Study Einstein metrics on nilpotent Lie groups, focusing on degenerate centers and degenerate Euclidean subalgebras.

problem Characterize Lorentzian left invariant Einstein metrics on nilpotent Lie groups.
method Analyzing Lie algebras and using double extension process to classify metrics.
result All nilpotent Lie groups up to dimension 5 with Lorentzian Einstein metrics have degenerate center.

Optimal transport explored on a specific geometric space.

problem Optimal transport problem in sub-Lorentzian Heisenberg group.
method Synthetic metric spacetime structure analysis and sub-Lorentzian version of Brenier's theorem.
result Established sub-Lorentzian version of Brenier's theorem and derived Monge-Ampère equation.

Researchers find counterexamples to inverse problems for wave equations.

problem Inverse problems for wave equations on domains and Lorentzian manifolds.
method Constructing non-isometric Lorentzian metrics leading to same partial data measurements.
result Non-isometric Lorentzian metrics can produce identical partial data measurements.

The study constructs a Lorentzian length space and explores its properties and relationships with metric and causal geometry.

problem Understanding the relationship between metric and causal geometry in Lorentzian spaces.
method Constructing a Lorentzian length space with an orthogonal splitting on a product of an interval and a metric space, and using synthetic time-like Ricci curvature bounds.
result Established sufficient conditions for global hyperbolicity and formulated time-like Ricci curvature bounds without push-up and regularity assumptions.

Study on recovering Lorentzian metrics from scattering data.

problem Recovering Lorentzian metrics from scattering data on a boundary.
method Analyzing the role of boundary distance functions and linearizing the light ray transform.
result Scattering rigidity can be reduced to boundary rigidity of magnetic systems.

Proves limit curve theorem for incomplete metric spaces, applies to null distance in Lorentzian manifolds.

problem Control of Lorentzian lengths of limit curves in incomplete metric spaces.
method Proves limit curve theorem for incomplete metric spaces and applies to null distance.
result Strong control on Lorentzian lengths of limit curves in Sormani and Vegas' null distance.

We present a systematic study of causality theory on Lorentzian manifolds with continuous metrics. Examples are given which show that some standard facts in smooth Lorentzian geometry, such as light-cones being hypersurfaces, are wrong when metrics which are merely continuous are considered. We show that existence of t…

2011-11-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Synthetic approach to conformal transformations in metric and Lorentzian spaces.

problem Defining consistent conformal transformations in spaces of low regularity.
method Introducing conformal transformations in metric and Lorentzian spaces, focusing on Lorentzian pre-length spaces.
result Established a consistent notion of conformal length and proved its properties.

The paper constructs Gromov-Hausdorff metrics for Lorentzian spaces and calculates dimensions.

problem Understanding the geometry and dimensions of Lorentzian spaces.
method Construction of Gromov-Hausdorff metrics, calculation of dimensions, and analysis of Lorentzian spaces.
result Dushnik-Miller dimension of Minkowski spaces is countably infinite.

We describe the structure of dd-dimensional homogeneous Lorentzian GG-manifolds M=G/HM=G/H of a semisimple Lie group GG. Due to a result by N. Kowalsky, it is sufficient to consider the case when the group GG acts properly, that is the stabilizer HH is compact. Then any homogeneous space G/HˉG/\bar H with a smaller gro…

2011-01-16abs ↗pdf ↗

We investigate connections between pairs of (pseudo-)Riemannian metrics whose sum is a (tensor) product of a covector field with itself. A bijective mapping between the classes of Euclidean and Lorentzian metrics is constructed as a special result. The existence of such maps on a differentiable manifold is discussed. S…

1998-02-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Study magnetic perturbations in Riemannian and Lorentzian Calderón problems.

problem Determining metrics from boundary measurements under magnetic perturbations.
method Runge approximation for Riemannian case, microlocal analysis for Lorentzian case.
result Metrics can be uniquely determined in both Riemannian and Lorentzian cases under specific perturbations.

A Lorentzian flat Lie group is a Lie group GG with a flat left invariant metric μμ with signature (1,n1)=(,+,,+)(1,n-1)=(-,+,\ldots,+). The Lie algebra g=TeG\mathfrak{g}=T_eG of GG endowed with   ,  =μ(e)\langle\;,\;\rangle=μ(e) is called flat Lorentzian Lie algebra. It is known that the metric of a flat Lorentzian Lie group is geodesical…

2014-01-05abs ↗pdf ↗

We determine all Ricci flat left invariant Lorentzian metrics on simply connected 2-step nilpotent Lie groups. We show that the 2k+12k+1-dimensional Heisenberg Lie group H2k+1H_{2k+1} carries a Ricci flat left invariant Lorentzian metric if and only if k=1k=1. We show also that for any 2qk2\leq q\leq k, H2k+1H_{2k+1} carries a R…

2009-10-14abs ↗pdf ↗

All candidates to the weakly-irreducible not irreducible holonomy algebras of Lorentzian manifolds are known. In the present paper metrics that realize all these candidates as holonomy algebras are given. This completes the classification of the Lorentzian holonomy algebras. Also new examples of metrics with the holono…

2005-02-28abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper classifies metrics on specific Lie groups and finds unique properties of these metrics.

problem Classifying left-invariant Lorentzian metrics on specific Lie groups.
method Analyzing the three-dimensional Heisenberg group and its direct product with Euclidean space.
result There are exactly six left-invariant Lorentzian metrics on the Lie group, one of which is flat and the others are Ricci solitons but not Einstein.

Researchers solve a formally determined inverse problem in Lorentzian geometry.

problem Determining a Lorentzian metric from boundary measurements of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map.
method New method using distorted plane wave solutions and geometric, topological, and unique continuation arguments.
result A globally hyperbolic metric agreeing with the Minkowski metric outside a compact set and having the same Dirichlet-to-Neumann map must be the Minkowski metric up to diffeomorphism.

Study classifies Einstein-Yang-Mills spaces in 4D symmetric spaces.

problem Classifying Lorentzian symmetric spaces with Einstein-Yang-Mills properties.
method Classification based on invariant metric connections and diagonal metrics.
result Four-dimensional symmetric spaces with nontrivial isotropy groups are classified.

Study on special Lie groups with Lorentzian metrics.

problem Characterize structure of 22-step nilpotent Lorentzian naturally reductive Lie groups.
method Develop framework for naturally reductive Lie groups, extend to Lorentzian context, analyze degenerate and non-degenerate cases.
result Complete structural description of naturally reductive 22-step Lorentzian nilpotent Lie groups.

Researchers generalize space forms in Riemannian geometry using specific vector fields.

problem Generalizing space forms in Riemannian geometry with a distinguished vector field.
method Proposing and studying pairs (g,T) of Riemannian metrics and vector fields, leading to Lorentzian metrics with constant curvature.
result Only flat, product manifolds with universal covering as a product of R and N are the only pairs (g,T) whose corresponding Lorentzian metric is a space form in the compact setting.