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48 results for conformally flat spacetimes

A spacetime can be embedded in an enveloping space with all its extensions.

problem Existence and uniqueness of C0-maximal extensions in globally hyperbolic conformally flat spacetimes.
method Proving conformal embedding into an enveloping space containing all extensions.
result Existence and uniqueness of C0-maximal extensions proven.

This paper completes globally hyperbolic conformally flat spacetimes, proving they are topological manifolds.

problem Understanding the structure of spacetimes with specific properties.
method Analyzing globally hyperbolic conformally flat spacetimes, proving their causal completions are topological manifolds.
result Causal completions of globally hyperbolic conformally flat spacetimes are topological manifolds homeomorphic to S x [0, 1].

Classification of specific pseudo-Riemannian manifolds.

problem Classifying conformally flat generalized Ricci recurrent pseudo-Riemannian manifolds.
method Complete classification through mathematical analysis.
result Conformally flat generalized Ricci recurrent pseudo-Riemannian manifolds are either de Sitter or anti-de Sitter spacetimes.

Detect spacetime curvature without rulers and clocks in 3D.

problem Detecting spacetime curvature without traditional measurement tools.
method Generalized results from 2D to 3D spacetime, proving well-stitched spacetime for conformally flat cases.
result A 3D spacetime is well-stitched if and only if it is conformally flat, providing a tool for curvature detection.

New tractor geometry derived from asymptotically flat spacetimes.

problem Understanding the geometry of spacetimes near their boundaries.
method Derived null-tractor bundle from interior spacetime geometry, proved connections' uniqueness, and expressed results in BMS coordinates.
result Tractor connection encodes mass and angular momentum in 3D, and asymptotic shear in higher dimensions.

The paper finds conditions for pseudosymmetric spacetimes to be perfect fluids.

problem Characterizing pseudosymmetric spacetimes as perfect fluids.
method Analyzes generalized Robertson-Walker spacetimes, conformally flat spacetimes, and dust fluids.
result Conditions for pseudosymmetric spacetimes to be perfect fluids are established.

The Kasner metrics are among the simplest solutions of the vacuum Einstein equations, and we use them here to examine the conformal method of finding solutions of the Einstein constraint equations. After describing the conformal method's construction of constant mean curvature (CMC) slices of Kasner spacetimes, we turn…

2014-04-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Anosov representations are linked to specific spacetimes.

problem Understanding representations of groups into Lie groups.
method Holonomy of Anosov representations into O0(2, n) and spatial compactness of spacetimes.
result Anosov representations are the holonomy of CGHM conformally flat spacetimes.

Higher-dimensional Schwarzschild spacetimes violate the Penrose property.

problem Causal behavior of higher-dimensional Schwarzschild spacetimes.
method Analyzing causal properties in (2+1)(2+1), (3+1)(3+1), and (d+1)(d+1) dimensions.
result The Penrose property does not hold for (d+1)(d+1) dimensional Schwarzschild if d>3d>3.

One method of studying the asymptotic structure of spacetime is to apply Penrose's conformal rescaling technique. In this setting, the Einstein equations for the metric and the conformal factor in the unphysical spacetime degenerate where the conformal factor vanishes, namely at the boundary representing null infinity.…

2001-11-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Moitvated in part by [3], in this note we obtain a rigidity result for globally hyperbolic vacuum spacetimes in arbitrary dimension that admit a timelike conformal Killing vector field. Specifically, we show that if M is a Ricci flat, timelike geodesically complete spacetime with compact Cauchy surfaces that admits a t…

2017-12-03abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper proves a rigidity theorem for null geodesic travel times in asymptotically AdS spacetimes.

problem Determining if a spacetime is conformally AdS based on null geodesic travel times.
method Analyzing all null geodesics from a point to its antipodal point, considering various spacetime conditions.
result The spacetime is conformally AdS if and only if all null geodesics from a point refocus at its antipodal point.

The study characterizes and classifies specific types of manifolds using conformal and quasi-Einstein properties.

problem Characterizing and classifying manifolds with specific geometric properties.
method Analyzing warped products, contact manifolds, and semi-Riemannian manifolds.
result Characterizations and classifications of weakly conformally flat and quasi-Einstein manifolds.

The paper aims to initiate a systematic study of conformal mappings between Finsler spacetimes and, more generally, between pseudo-Finsler spaces. This is done by extending several results in pseudo-Riemannian geometry which are necessary for field-theoretical applications and by proposing a technique which reduces a s…

2017-06-06abs ↗pdf ↗

W. Simon proved a conformal positive mass theorem, which was used to prove uniqueness of black holes later. In this note, we will generalize Simon's conformal positive mass theorem in two directions. First we will consider spacetime version of conformal positive mass theorems on asymptotically flat initial data set. Ne…

2016-07-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Vortex solutions on flat surfaces map to harmonic spinors on Nappi-Witten space.

problem Constructing Abelian magnetic zero-modes on flat spacetime.
method Establishing a correspondence between vortex equations and harmonic spinors on the Nappi-Witten space.
result Explicit solutions of a twisted Dirac equation induce harmonic spinors on Minkowski space.

We establish that equally-spaced smectic configurations enjoy an infinite-dimensional conformal symmetry and show that there is a natural map between them and null hypersurfaces in maximally-symmetric spacetimes. By choosing the appropriate conformal factor it is possible to restore additional symmetries of focal struc…

2011-11-30abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider a triality between the Zermelo navigation problem, the geodesic flow on a Finslerian geometry of Randers type, and spacetimes in one dimension higher admitting a timelike conformal Killing vector field. From the latter viewpoint, the data of the Zermelo problem are encoded in a (conformally) Painleve-Gullst…

2008-11-18abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper studies volumes of conformally flat manifolds in light-cone geometry.

problem Volume maximization of conformally flat manifolds in light-cone geometry.
method Computes variational formulas for the volume of hypersurfaces in light-cone.
result Hypersurfaces of conformally flat manifolds maximize volume in certain null hypersurfaces.

The paper introduces and analyzes pseudo generalized Ricci-recurrent spacetimes in modified gravity.

problem Characterizing and analyzing pseudo generalized Ricci-recurrent spacetimes in modified gravity.
method Introducing and characterizing pseudo generalized Ricci-recurrent spacetimes, proving their properties, and studying their impact under modified gravity scenarios.
result Pseudo generalized Ricci-recurrent spacetimes represent specific spacetime types under modified gravity scenarios.

We show that the conformal Penrose limit is an ordinary plane wave limit in a higher dimensional framework which resolves the spacetime singularity. The higher dimensional framework is provided by Ricci-flat manifolds which are of the form M_D = M_d x B, where M_d is an Einstein spacetime that has a negative cosmologic…

2008-04-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Characterizes pseudo B-symmetric spacetimes and their implications in f(R) gravity.

problem Characterizing pseudo B-symmetric spacetimes and their properties.
method Analyzes Codazzi type of B-tensor and applies f(R) gravity model.
result Pseudo B-symmetric spacetimes with Codazzi type B-tensor are conformally flat and Robertson-Walker spacetimes.

Study curvature properties in special manifolds using specific tensors.

problem Investigate curvature conditions in 2-quasi-Einstein manifolds.
method Analyze Riemann-Christoffel curvature tensor and its linear combinations with Ricci tensor.
result Satisfy pseudosymmetry type curvature conditions in certain manifolds.

The paper studies conformal Ricci solitons in warped product spaces.

problem Characterizing conformal Ricci solitons in warped product manifolds.
method Analyzes properties of conformal Ricci solitons in warped product spaces, proving conditions for solitons and characterizing them in terms of vector fields.
result A warped product manifold admitting a conformal Ricci soliton with a concurrent potential vector field is Ricci flat.

We generalized Xiang, Qi and Wei's results on the M-eigenvalues of Riemann curvature tensor to higher dimensional conformal flat manifolds. The expression of M-eigenvalues and M-eigenvectors are found in our paper. As a special case, M-eigenvalues of conformal flat Einstein manifold have also been discussed, and the co…

2018-07-28abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we provide a method capable of producing an infinite number of solutions for Einstein's equation on static spacetimes with perfect fluid as a matter field. All spacetimes of this type which are symmetric with respect to a given group of translations and whose spatial factor is conformally flat, are charac…

2017-11-02abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper introduces comprehensive quasi-Einstein spacetimes and explores their properties.

problem Exploring new types of spacetimes in general relativity.
method Mathematical analysis of geometric and physical properties of comprehensive quasi-Einstein manifolds.
result Existence of comprehensive quasi-Einstein spacetimes and their properties.

We consider four-dimensional vacuum spacetimes which admit a nonvanishing spacelike Killing field. The quotient with respect to the Killing action is a three-dimensional quotient spacetime (M,g)(M,g). We establish several results regarding maximal hypersurfaces (spacelike hypersurfaces of zero mean curvature) in such quot…

2016-03-02abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider (flat) Cauchy-complete GH spacetimes, i.e., globally hyperbolic flat lorentzian manifolds admitting some Cauchy hypersurface on which the ambient lorentzian metric restricts as a complete riemannian metric. We define a family of such spacetimes - model spacetimes - including four subfamilies: translation sp…

2004-02-16abs ↗pdf ↗

The null distance for Lorentzian manifolds was recently introduced by Sormani and Vega. Under mild assumptions on the time function of the spacetime, the null distance gives rise to an intrinsic, conformally invariant metric that induces the manifold topology. We show when warped products of low regularity and globally…

2019-09-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Study characterizes conformal boundaries of de Sitter spacetimes.

problem Characterize conformal infinity of asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes.
method Derive constraints relating stress-energy tensor to conformal geometric data using higher conformal fundamental forms.
result Constraints on stress-energy tensor relate to conformal geometric data.

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 causally simple spacetimes into globally hyperbolic ones irrespective of curvature con…

2019-01-02abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper studies geometric structures in perfect fluid spacetimes with specific metrics.

problem Analyzing the geometric properties of perfect fluid spacetimes with specific metrics.
method Investigates conditions for conformal Ricci-Yamabe soliton and derives Laplace equations.
result Conditions for expanding, steady, or shrinking conformal Ricci-Yamabe solitons are identified.

It has been observed by Maldacena that one can extract asymptotically anti-de Sitter Einstein 44-metrics from Bach-flat spacetimes by imposing simple principles and data choices. We cast this problem in a conformally compact Riemannian setting. Following an approach pioneered by Fefferman and Graham for the Einstein e…

2018-09-17abs ↗pdf ↗