Study isotropic solutions in smooth metric measure spaces with vacuum Einstein equations.
problem Investigate isotropic solutions in smooth metric measure spaces under vacuum Einstein field equations.
method Define a weighted Einstein tensor and associated vacuum field equations. Analyze solutions for different spacetime types.
result Isotropic solutions have nilpotent Ricci operator and specific forms in 2- and 3-step nilpotent manifolds.
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.
Two different spacetimes can mimic each other's boundary measurements.
problem Lorentzian Calderón problem
method Counterexample construction
result Non-isometric spacetimes can have identical boundary measurements
New calculus on spacetimes for nonlinear differential equations.
problem Nonlinear differential equations on metric measure spacetimes.
method Introduces maximal weak subslope and variational calculus.
result Establishes a comparison theorem for nonlinear p-d'Alembertian. Study weak super Ricci flow through neckpinch in metric measure spaces.
problem Understanding Ricci flow behavior at singularities.
method Introduce weak super Ricci flow and show conditions for continuation.
result Weak super Ricci flow properties at singularities.
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.
Refines d'Alembertian for signed Lorentz distance functions in metric measure spacetimes.
problem Exact representation and bounds of d'Alembertian for signed Lorentz distance functions.
method Metric geometry techniques, localization, Sobolev calculus.
result Distributional d'Alembertian is a signed measure with integration by parts formula.
Note shows equivalence of recent NEC reformulation to classical NEC for C2-metrics.
problem Consistency of null energy condition in Lorentzian length spaces.
method Shows equivalence of recent reformulation of null energy condition to classical formulation for C2-metrics. result Equivalence of recent reformulation of null energy condition to classical formulation for C2-metrics. 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.
The study proves timelike Ricci bounds for low regularity spacetimes using optimal transport.
problem Proving timelike Ricci bounds for spacetimes with low regularity.
method Using optimal transport to prove timelike measure-contraction property.
result Timelike curvature-dimension condition holds for C1,1 metrics. Researchers examine various causal structures for spacetimes with continuous metrics.
problem Comparing causal structures for spacetimes with continuous but not necessarily smooth metrics.
method Examined three key properties: push-up lemma, openness of chronological futures, and existence of limit causal curves.
result Spacetimes with continuous metrics do not always satisfy all three key properties.
Low regularity spacetimes split into simpler structures.
problem Proving splitting theorem for C1 metrics and weights. method Combining elliptic techniques and line-adapted curves.
result Extends Lorentzian splitting theorem to C1 settings. Unique AdS spacetime found with prescribed metric on a convex surface.
problem Finding an AdS spacetime with a specific metric on a convex surface.
method Constructing a quasifuchsian AdS spacetime with a past-convex Cauchy surface.
result Existence and uniqueness of a quasifuchsian AdS spacetime with the specified properties.
Formally constructs metrics near timelike geodesics in vacuum spacetimes.
problem Constructing metrics near timelike geodesics in spacetimes.
method Constructs a family of metrics depending on a small parameter ε, solving the Einstein vacuum equations modulo O(ε^∞).
result The rescalings near the geodesic tend to a fixed subextremal Kerr metric.
New findings show Berwald Finsler spacetimes cannot be metrized.
problem Can Szabo's metrizability theorem be extended to Finsler spacetimes?
method Investigation of Berwald Finsler spacetimes and their properties.
result Found a class of Berwald spacetimes with asymmetric Ricci tensors.
Defines a geometric dimension for Lorentzian spaces, distinguishing spacelike and null subspaces.
problem No specific problem stated; focuses on defining a new geometric dimension.
method Introduces a one-parameter family of volume measures and a doubling condition for causal diamonds.
result Defines a geometric dimension for synthetic spacetimes, distinguishing between spacelike and null subspaces.
Anti-de Sitter spacetimes with convex boundaries are uniquely determined by their boundary metrics.
problem Identifying anti-de Sitter spacetimes based on boundary properties.
method Proving rigidity for spacetimes with holonomy close to Fuchsian and convex boundaries.
result Globally hyperbolic compact anti-de Sitter spacetimes are determined by their boundary metrics.
The radar experiment connects the geometry of spacetime with an observers measurement of spatial length. We investigate the radar experiment on Finsler spacetimes which leads to a general definition of radar orthogonality and radar length. The directions radar orthogonal to an observer form the spatial equal time surfa…
The central object of study of this thesis is inverse mean curvature vector flow of two-dimensional surfaces in four-dimensional spacetimes. Being a system of forward-backward parabolic PDEs, inverse mean curvature vector flow equation lacks a general existence theory. Our main contribution is proving that there exist …
The folk questions in Lorentzian Geometry, which concerns the smoothness of time functions and slicings by Cauchy hypersurfaces, are solved by giving simple proofs of: (a) any globally hyperbolic spacetime (M,g) admits a smooth time function τ whose levels are spacelike Cauchy hyperfurfaces and, thus, also a smooth…
In a recent work I showed that the family of smooth steep time functions can be used to recover the order, the topology and the (Lorentz-Finsler) distance of spacetime. In this work I present the main ideas entering the proof of the (smooth) distance formula, particularly the product trick which converts metric stateme…
The paper reconstructs Lorentzian spacetimes from causal sets.
problem Reconstructing Lorentzian spacetimes from causal sets.
method Introduced a concept of isomorphy and three types of convergence.
result Established Gromov's reconstruction theorem in Lorentzian geometry.
Synthetic framework for null hypersurfaces in non-smooth spacetimes.
problem Analyzing null hypersurfaces in non-smooth spacetimes.
method Develops synthetic null hypersurfaces using optimal transport and Lorentzian geometry.
result Synthetic null energy condition stabilizes under convergence and applies to low-regularity spacetimes.
We construct the differential geometry of smooth manifolds equipped with an algebraic curvature map acting as an area measure. Area metric geometry provides a spacetime structure suitable for the discussion of gauge theories and strings, and is considerably more general than Lorentzian geometry. Our construction of geo…
Geroch's theorem about the splitting of globally hyperbolic spacetimes is a central result in global Lorentzian Geometry. Nevertheless, this result was obtained at a topological level, and the possibility to obtain a metric (or, at least, smooth) version has been controversial since its publication in 1970. In fact, th…
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.
The paper studies convergence of cosmological spacetimes using null distance.
problem Convergence of cosmological spacetimes with compact slices.
method Using null distance and Gromov-Hausdorff convergence, the paper establishes convergence results for spacetimes with mild extension properties.
result Uniform convergence of null distances and Gromov-Hausdorff convergence for monotone sequences of spacetimes.
Jebsen-Birkhoff theorem extended to Berwald spacetimes.
problem Generalizing Birkhoff theorem to Berwald spacetimes.
method Proving Ricci-flat, spatially spherically symmetric Berwald spacetimes are pseudo-Riemannian or flat.
result Jebsen-Birkhoff theorem extended to Berwald spacetimes.
We classify all spacetimes with a closed rank-2 conformal Killing-Yano tensor. They give a generalization of Kerr-NUT-de Sitter spacetimes. The Einstein condition is explicitly solved and written as an indefinite integral. It is characterized by a polynomial in the integrand. We briefly discuss the smoothness condition…
The (twice-contracted) second Bianchi identity is a differential curvature identity that holds on any smooth manifold with a metric. In the case when such a metric is Lorentzian and solves Einstein's equations with an (in this case inevitably smooth) energy-momentum-stress tensor of a "matter field" as the source of sp…
Proves Hawking's theorem for less smooth spacetime metrics.
problem Proving Hawking's singularity theorem for less smooth spacetime metrics.
method New estimates for Ricci curvature and a segment-type inequality for volume control.
result Proves Hawking's singularity theorem for Lipschitz metrics.
Chernov-Nemirovski observed that the existence of a globally hyperbolic Lorentzian metric on a (3 + 1)-spacetime pins down a smooth structure on the underlying 4-manifold. In this paper, we point out that the diffeomorphism type of a globally hyperbolic (n + 1)-spacetime is determined by the h-cobordism class of its Ca…
Revisits Finsler spacetimes from inertial observer perspective.
problem Physical foundations of relativistic spacetimes.
method Inertial observers and double linear approximation.
result Finsler spacetimes are defined by dropping the second linearization.
New proof of stability for expanding Kerr-de Sitter spacetimes with smoothness at the boundary.
problem Stability of expanding region of Kerr-de Sitter spacetimes.
method Modified generalized harmonic gauge, local stability near conformal boundary, smoothness down to future conformal boundary.
result Smoothness of conformally rescaled metric down to future conformal boundary with mild singularity.
Paper introduces a new time separation function for C0 spacetimes.
problem Lower semicontinuity of time separation function for C0 spacetimes. method Introduced nearly timelike curves to ensure lower semicontinuity.
result Lower semicontinuous time separation function for C0 spacetimes. Continuing recent efforts in extending the classical singularity theorems of General Relativity to low regularity metrics, we give a complete proof of both the Hawking and the Penrose singularity theorem for C1-Lorentzian metrics - a regularity where one still has existence but not uniqueness for solutions of the ge…
In General Relativity the metric can be recovered from the structure of the lightcones and a measure giving the volume element. Since the causal structure seems to be simpler than the Lorentzian manifold structure, this suggests that it is more fundamental. But there are cases when seemingly healthy causal structure an…
We prove that the essential smoothness of the gravitational metric at shock waves in GR, a PDE regularity issue for weak solutions of the Einstein equations, is determined by a geometrical condition which we introduce and name the {\it Riemann-flat condition}. The Riemann-flat condition determines whether or not the es…
We prove that compact Cauchy horizons in a smooth spacetime satisfying the null energy condition are smooth. As an application, we consider the problem of determining when a cobordism admits Lorentzian metrics with certain properties. In particular, we prove a result originally due to Tipler without the smoothness hypo…
Optimizes transport in Finsler spacetimes with lower Ricci bounds.
problem Optimizing transport in Finsler spacetimes with lower Ricci bounds.
method Using optimal transport and weighted Ricci curvature bounds.
result Proves timelike curvature-dimension condition for Finsler spacetimes.
Study of caustics in Einstein-dust system, showing spacetime singularities and diverging curvature.
problem Understanding caustics and singularities in the Einstein-dust system.
method Established local existence result for spherically symmetric spacetimes containing caustics, constructed from solutions to a PDE problem.
result Obtained spherically symmetric spacetimes with diverging curvature and singular boundary.
It is observed that on many 4-manifolds there is a unique smooth structure underlying a globally hyperbolic Lorentz metric. For instance, every contractible smooth 4-manifold admitting a globally hyperbolic Lorentz metric is diffeomorphic to the standard R4. Similarly, a smooth 4-manifold homeomorphic to the produc…
Study shows Brakke flow's non-triviality for smooth boundaries in codimension 1.
problem Understanding Brakke flow's non-triviality for smooth boundaries in codimension 1.
method Analyzing spacetime Brakke flow constructed by Buet et al. for initial varifolds.
result Support of mass measure of spacetime Brakke flow coincides with classical mean curvature flow's support.
The study lifts certain Sasakian manifolds to quasi-Einstein spacetimes.
problem Understanding lifts of Sasakian manifolds to quasi-Einstein spacetimes.
method Analyzing smooth Sasakian manifolds and their lifts to 4D quasi-Einstein spacetimes.
result Smooth Sasakian manifolds can be lifted to quasi-Einstein shearfree spacetimes of Petrov type II or D.
Theorem proves spectral rigidity of warped product metrics.
problem Spectral rigidity of warped product metrics.
method Spinor and spacetime harmonic function methods.
result Proves spectral Llarull theorem for warped product metrics.
New scalars measure failure of CC metrics to solve singular Yamabe problem.
problem Measuring failure of CC metrics to solve singular Yamabe problem.
method Introducing conformally invariant scalar curvature quantities along conformal infinity.
result CC boundary curvature scalars compute canonical expansion coefficients for singular Yamabe metrics.
Study existence of achronal hypersurfaces with prescribed mean curvature in 3D spacetimes.
problem Existence of achronal hypersurfaces with prescribed mean curvature in 3D spacetimes.
method General existence and regularity theorem for surfaces in ambient dimension 3.
result Proves existence and regularity of surfaces in 3D spacetimes.
New cosmological spacetimes without CMC Cauchy surfaces found.
problem Finding CMC Cauchy surfaces in cosmological spacetimes.
method Generalized Bartnik's construction to connected sums of three-manifolds.
result Cosmological spacetimes without CMC Cauchy surfaces for any compact three-manifolds.