New Galilean spacetimes found as pp-wave reductions.
problem Understanding isotropic homogeneous Galilean spacetimes.
method Null reductions of pp-wave spacetimes.
result Found novel torsional Galilean spacetimes.
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Study pp-waves with lightlike parallel spinors in vacuum spacetimes.
problem Characterize pp-waves with lightlike parallel spinors in vacuum spacetimes.
method Parametrize pp-wave spacetimes, show correspondence with Riemannian metrics, prove parallel spinor condition.
result A pp-wave spacetime with a lightlike parallel spinor corresponds to a Ricci-flat metric with a parallel spinor.
Extends Penrose limit to Finsler spacetimes.
problem Extending Penrose limit to Finsler spacetimes.
method Introducing lightlike coordinates and adapting Lorentzian pp-wave definition.
result New examples of Finsler pp-waves presented.
The main objective of the present paper is to investigate the curvature properties of generalized pp-wave metric. It is shown that generalized pp-wave spacetime is Ricci generalized pseudosymmetric, 2-quasi-Einstein and generalized quasi-Einstein in the sense of Chaki. As a special case it is shown that pp-wave spaceti…
-wave initial datagr-qc
Initial data for -wave spacetimes constructed in 4D.
problem Characterizing initial data for -wave spacetimes.
method Constructs a vacuum initial data set with extra conditions related to CKID.
result Data development is a subset of a vacuum -wave.
Hidden symmetries of the Goryachev-Chaplygin and Kovalevskaya gyrostats spacetimes, as well as the Brdička-Eardley-Nappi-Witten pp-waves are studied. We find out that these spacetimes possess higher rank Stäckel-Killing tensors and that in the case of the pp-wave spacetimes the symmetry group of the Stäckel-Killing ten…
A classical pp-wave is a 4-dimensional Lorentzian spacetime which admits a nonvanishing parallel spinor field; here the connection is assumed to be Levi-Civita. We generalise this definition to metric compatible spacetimes with torsion and describe basic properties of such spacetimes. We use our generalised pp-waves fo…
Randers pp-wavesgr-qc
Study of Randers spacetimes and their Finsler gravity solutions.
problem Analyzing Finsler gravity field equations for Randers spacetimes.
method Examined Berwald-type Randers spacetimes and Finsler gravity field equations, showing equivalence to Einstein gravity.
result Found exact solutions for vacuum Finsler gravity are composed of pp-waves and 1-forms.
New metrics link Kähler and pp-wave spacetimes.
problem Connecting Kähler and pp-wave spacetimes.
method Constructing families of complete almost Kähler metrics by deforming pp-waves.
result Established a one-to-one correspondence between almost Kähler metrics and pp-wave spacetimes.
Initial data with zero mass must be in pp-wave spacetimes.
problem Proving initial data with zero mass must be in pp-wave spacetimes.
method Spinorial methods combined with spacetime harmonic functions.
result Initial data with zero mass must be contained in pp-wave spacetimes.
In this paper we deal with quadratic metric-affine gravity, which we briefly introduce, explain and give historical and physical reasons for using this particular theory of gravity. Further, we introduce a generalisation of well known spacetimes, namely pp-waves. A classical pp-wave is a 4-dimensional Lorentzian spacet…
Characterizes spacetimes using doubly torqued vectors.
problem Classifying spacetimes based on their geometric properties.
method Characterization through doubly torqued vectors and their properties.
result Doubly twisted and Kundt spacetimes can be characterized.
We study constant mean curvature spacelike hypersurfaces and in particular maximal hypersurfaces immersed in pp-wave spacetimes satisfying the timelike convergence condition. We prove the non-existence of compact spacelike hypersurfaces whose constant mean curvature is non-zero and also that every compact maximal hyper…
Classifies solutions to vacuum weighted Einstein equations on pr-waves.
problem Classifying solutions to vacuum weighted Einstein field equations on pr-waves.
method Classifying solutions using smooth metric measure spacetimes of dimension 4.
result Provides examples of solutions with special geometric properties.
The Eisenhart lift connects Hamiltonian systems to geodesics in pp-wave spacetimes.
problem Studying the stability and dynamics of Hamiltonian systems.
method Eisenhart lift to pp-wave spacetimes and conformal classes of ODEs.
result Existence of a constant of the motion generalizing conservation of energy.
Impulsive waves contradict a 1962 conjecture about pp-waves.
problem The failure of the Ehlers--Kundt conjecture in the impulsive case.
method Summarized completeness results for impulsive wave spacetimes.
result Impulsive pp-waves are complete, contradicting the conjecture.
Study shows no hidden symmetries in specific spacetime metrics.
problem Demonstrating the absence of Killing tensors in Koutras-McIntosh spacetimes.
method Geometric theory of overdetermined PDEs and Cartan prolongation-projection method.
result No Killing tensors of low degrees in Wils metrics and generic pp-waves.
New formula shows how causal vectors relate to mass-minimizing data.
problem Understanding mass-minimizing initial data sets and their geometry.
method Developed a new monotonicity formula for causal Killing vectors.
result Established strong maximum principles for the Lorentzian length.
New general results of non-existence and rigidity of spacelike submanifolds immersed in a spacetime, whose mean curvature is a time-oriented causal vector field, are given. These results hold for a wide class of spacetimes which includes globally hyperbolic, stationary, conformally stationary and pp-wave spacetimes, am…
We devise an algorithm which allows one to count the number of Killing vectors for a Lorentzian manifold of dimension 3. Our algorithm relies on the principal traces of powers of the Ricci tensor and branches intricately according to the values of differential invariants arising from the compatibility conditions of the…
The paper extends the spacetime positive mass theorem to multiple time dimensions.
problem Proving the nonnegativity of mass in spacetimes with multiple time dimensions.
method Generalizing the spacetime positive mass theorem to include multiple time dimensions and showing mass nonnegativity through energy inequalities.
result Equality in the energy inequality implies a foliation by flat submanifolds.
A spacetime denotes a pure radiation field if its energy momentum tensor represents a situation in which all the energy is transported in one direction with the speed of light. In 1989, Wils and later in 1997 Ludwig and Edgar studied the physical properties of pure radiation metrics, which are conformally related to a …
New insights into Bartnik mass from improvability of dominant energy scalar.
problem Characterizing Bartnik mass minimizing initial data sets.
method Introducing improvability concept, proving non-improvability consequences, and analyzing pp-wave counterexamples.
result Bartnik mass minimizing initial data sets are characterized, advancing conjectures.
We consider restrictions placed by geodesic completeness on spacetimes possessing a null parallel vector field, the so-called Brinkmann spacetimes. This class of spacetimes includes important idealized gravitational wave models in General Relativity, namely the plane-fronted waves with parallel rays, or pp-waves, which…
Study parallel waves in spacetimes, focusing on causality and open questions.
problem Addressing open questions in the field of parallel waves in spacetimes.
method Review and summarize existing results, introduce new concepts like null coordinates and Penrose limits.
result Progress made on the Ehlers-Kundt conjecture.
Recently, classical results on completeness of trajectories of Hamiltonian systems obtained at the beginning of the seventies, have been revisited, improved and applied to Lorentzian Geometry. Our aim here is threefold: to give explicit proofs of some technicalities in the background of the specialists, to show that th…
Rigidity theorem shows massless hyperboloidal data embeds into Minkowski space.
problem Characterizing massless initial data sets in General Relativity.
method Precise decay estimates for spinors on harmonic level sets.
result Asymptotically hyperboloidal IDS with zero mass embed isometrically into Minkowski space.
Study finds all 4D Lie groups with harmonic curvature.
problem Finding Lie groups with harmonic curvature in 4D.
method Analyzing pp-wave Lie groups and determining harmonic curvature conditions.
result Description of 4D pp-wave Lie groups obtained.
We provide an explicit formula for the Fefferman-Graham-ambient metric of an -dimensional conformal -wave in those cases where it exists. In even dimensions we calculate the obstruction explicitly. Furthermore, we describe all 4-dimensional -waves that are Bach-flat, and give a large class of Bach-flat examp…
A generalized geometric method is developed for constructing exact solutions of gravitational field equations in Einstein theory and generalizations. First, we apply the formalism of nonholonomic frame deformations (formally considered for nonholonomic manifolds and Finsler spaces) when the gravitational field equation…
A pp-wave is a Lorentzian manifold with a parallel light-like vector field satisfying a certain curvature condition. We introduce generalisations of pp-waves, on one hand by allowing the vector field to be recurrent and on the other hand by weakening the curvature condition. These generalisations are related to the scr…
We consider spacetime to be a connected real 4-manifold equipped with a Lorentzian metric and an affine connection. The 10 independent components of the (symmetric) metric tensor and the 64 connection coefficients are the unknowns of our theory. We introduce an action which is quadratic in curvature and study the resul…
We show that in dimension n>3 the class of simple conformally recurrent space-times coincides with the class of conformally recurrent pp-waves.
Locally homogeneous pp-wavesmath.DG
We show that every n-dimensional locally homogeneous pp-wave is a plane wave, provided it is indecomposable and its curvature operator, when acting on -forms, has rank greater than one. As a consequence we obtain that indecomposable, Ricci-flat locally homogeneous pp-waves are plane waves. This generalises a classic…
We investigate the local structure of four-dimensional Lorentzian quasi-Einstein manifolds under conditions on the Weyl tensor. We show that if the Weyl tensor is harmonic and the potential function preserves this harmonicity then, in the isotropic case, the manifold is necessarily a -wave. Using the quasi-Einstein…
We show that the maximally supersymmetric pp-waves of IIB superstring and M-theories can be obtained as a Penrose limit of the supersymmetric AdS x S solutions. In addition we find that in a certain large tension limit, the geometry seen by a brane probe in an AdS x S background is either Minkowski space or a maximally…
We find exact solutions describing Ricci flows of four dimensional pp-waves nonlinearly deformed by two/three dimensional solitons. Such solutions are parametrized by five dimensional metrics with generic off-diagonal terms and connections with nontrivial torsion which can be related, for instance, to antisymmetric ten…
We address the problem of finding conditions under which a compact Lorentzian manifold is geodesically complete, a property, which always holds for compact Riemannian manifolds. It is known that a compact Lorentzian manifold is geodesically complete if it is homogeneous, or has constant curvature, or admits a time-like…
We show that locally conformally flat quasi-Einstein manifolds are globally conformally equivalent to a space form or locally isometric to a -wave or a warped product.
We classify two-symmetric Lorentzian manifolds using methods of the theory of holonomy groups. These manifolds are exhausted by a special type of pp-waves and, like the symmetric Cahen-Wallach spaces, they have commutative holonomy.
We deal with quadratic metric-affine gravity (QMAG), which is an alternative theory of gravity and present a new explicit representation of the field equations of this theory. In our previous work we found new explicit vacuum solutions of QMAG, namely generalised pp-waves of parallel Ricci curvature with purely tensor …
Third-order symmetric Lorentzian manifolds, i.e. Lorentzian manifold with zero third derivative of the curvature tensor, are classified. These manifolds are exhausted by a special type of pp-waves, they generalize Cahen-Wallach spaces and second-order symmetric Lorentzian spaces.
The study explores highly supersymmetric backgrounds in 11D supergravity.
problem Understanding and constructing highly supersymmetric backgrounds in 11D supergravity.
method Definition of abstract symbols and a strong version of the Reconstruction Theorem, proposing a strategy to construct backgrounds, and providing an example with detailed computation.
result Bijective correspondence between highly supersymmetric backgrounds and abstract symbols, and a classical supersymmetry gap result.
We consider a class of -bundles whose total space admits a nowhere vanishing recurrent lightlike vector field with respect to a Lorentzian metric. This metric can be modified such that its restricted holonomy group is indecomposable and reducible. We apply Hodge theory to construct examples with Hermitian screen…
As early as 1972, Penrose - in a purely formal way - introduced a "discontinuous coordinate transformation", which relates a continuous representation of the metric of impulsive pp-waves to a discontinuous one. On the basis of the invertibility concept for generalized functions developed recently by the first author, w…
The classification problem for holonomy of pseudo-Riemannian manifolds is actual and open. In the present paper, holonomy algebras of Lorentz-Kähler manifolds are classified. A simple construction of a metric for each holonomy algebra is given. Complex Walker coordinates are introduced and described using the potential…
We provide a proof that nonholonomically constrained Ricci flows of (pseudo) Riemannian metrics positively result into nonsymmetric metrics (as explicit examples, we consider flows of some physically valuable exact solutions in general relativity). There are constructed and analyzed three classes of solutions of Ricci …
We study Ricci flows of some classes of physically valuable solutions in Einstein and string gravity. The anholonomic frame method is applied for generic off-diagonal metric ansatz when the field/ evolution equations are transformed into exactly integrable systems of partial differential equations. The integral varieti…