On geometry of flat complete strictly causal Lorentzian manifolds

A flat complete causal Lorentzian manifold is called strictly causal if the past and future of its every point are closed near this point. We consider the strictly causal manifolds with unipotent holonomy groups and assign to a manifold of this type four nonnegative integers (a signature) and a parabola in the cone of positive definite matrices. Two manifolds are equivalent if and only if their signatures coincide and the corresponding parabolas are equal (up to a suitable automorphism of the cone and an affine change of variable). Also, we give necessary and sufficient conditions distinguishing the parabolas of this type among all parabolas in the cone.     

Complete Flat Affine and Lorentzian Manifolds

Following in the tradition of Hilbert's 18th problem of classifying crystallographic groups, we provide a survey of a series of results which have culminated in the study of flat Lorentz manifolds. In particular, Milnor asked whether all complete flat affine manifolds have virtually polycyclic fundamental groups. Margulis answered this question negatively by constructing complete flat Lorentz manifolds with free fundamental groups. In this paper, we follow the effort to classify and understand these interesting counterexamples to Milnor's question, and their generalizations.     

Projective Vector Fields on Lorentzian Manifolds

Some relations between the causal character of projective vector fields and curvature on a Lorentzian manifold M are studied. As a consequence, obstructions to the existence of such vector fields are found. Affine, homothetic and Killing vector fields are considered specifically.     

Classification of Flat Lagrangian Surfaces in Complex Lorentzian Plane

One of the most fundamental problems in the study of Lagrangian submanifolds from Riemannian geometric point of view is to classify Lagrangian immersions of real space forms into complex space forms. The main purpose of this paper is thus to classify flat Lagrangian surfaces in the Lorentzian complex plane C1^2. Our main result states that there are thirty-eight families of flat Lagrangian surfaces in C1^2. Conversely, every flat Lagrangian surface in C1^2 is locally congruent to one of the thirty-eight families.     

The Chern Conjecture for Affinely Flat Manifolds Using Combinatorial Methods

An affine manifold is a manifold with a flat affine structure, i.e. a torsion-free flat affine connection. We slightly generalize the result of Hirsch and Thurston that if the holonomy of a closed affine manifold is isomorphic to amenable groups amalgamated or HNN-extended along finite groups, then the Euler characteristic of the manifold is zero confirming an old conjecture of Chern. The technique is from Kim and Lee's work using the combinatorial Gauss–Bonnet theorem and taking the means of the angles by amenability. We show that if an even-dimensional manifold is obtained from a connected sum operation from K(, 1)s with amenable fundamental groups, then the manifold does not admit an affine structure generalizing a result of Smillie.     

Globally hyperbolic Lorentzian spaces with special holonomy groups

We prove that each special Lorentzian holonomy group (with the exception of those including the isotropy groups of Kähler symmetric spaces) can be realized as the holonomy group of a globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifold.     

Lorentzian Submanifolds in Lorentzian Space Form with the Same Constant Curvatures

We study nondegenerate isometric immersions of Lorentzian manifolds of constant sectional curvatures into Lorentzian space form of the same constant sectional curvatures which have flat normal bundles. We also give a method to produce such immersions using the Lorentzian Grassmannian systems.     

Lightlike Hypersurfaces on Manifolds Endowed with a Conformal Structure of Lorentzian Signature

The authors study the geometry of lightlike hypersurfaces on manifolds (M, c) endowed with a pseudoconformal structure c = CO(n – 1, 1) of Lorentzian signature. Such hypersurfaces are of interest in general relativity since they can be models of different types of physical horizons. On a lightlike hypersurface, the authors consider the fibration of isotropic geodesics and investigate their singular points and singular submanifolds. They construct a conformally invariant normalization of a lightlike hypersurface intrinsically connected with its geometry and investigate affine connections induced by this normalization. The authors also consider special classes of lightlike hypersurfaces. In particular, they investigate lightlike hypersurfaces for which the elements of the constructed normalization are integrable.     

调和函数和完备流形的结构

主要通过讨论调和函数来研究完备流形的几何性质,并推广了[1,9]中的结果．     

Flat Nonunimodular Lorentzian Lie Algebras

A flat Lorentzian Lie algebra is a left symmetric algebra endowed with a symmetric bilinear form of signature (?, +,…, +) such that left multiplications are skew-symmetric. In geometrical terms, a flat Lorentzian Lie algebra is the Lie algebra of a Lie group with a left-invariant Lorentzian metric with vanishing curvature. In this article, we show that any flat nonunimodular Lorentzian Lie algebras can be obtained as a double extension of flat Riemannian Lie algebras. As an application, we give all flat nonunimodular Lorentzian Lie algebras up to dimension 4.     

Complete <Emphasis Type="Italic">k</Emphasis>-Curvature Homogeneous Pseudo-Riemannian Manifolds

Abstract. For k ≥ 2, we exhibit complete k-curvature homogeneous neutral signature pseudo-Riemannian manifolds which are not locally affine homogeneous (and hence not locally homogeneous). All the local scalarWeyl invariants of these manifolds vanish. These manifolds are Ricci flat, Osserman, and Ivanov-Petrova. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 53B20     

On the Locally Symmetric and Cosympectic Bochner Flat Manifolds

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Quasi—conformally Flat Manifolds with Constant Scalar Curvature

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Euclidean Complete Affine Surfaces with Constant Affine Mean Curvature

The purpose of this paper is to prove that alocally strongly convex, Euclidean complete surface with constantaffine mean curvature is also affine complete. Consequently weobtain a classification of locally strongly convex, Euclideancomplete surfaces with constant affine mean curvature.     

Problems on Bieberbach Groups and Flat Manifolds

We present about twenty conjectures, problems and questions about flat manifolds. Many of them build the bridges between the flat world and representation theory of the finite groups, hyperbolic geometry and dynamical systems. In memory of Charles B. Thomas     

只有一个B—函数的完备黎曼流形

讨论了只有一个Ｂｕｓｅｍａｎｎ函数的完备非紧黎曼流形的几何拓扑性质。     

Spin Structures on Flat Manifolds with Cyclic Holonomy

We study spin structures on flat Riemannian manifolds. The main result is a necessary and sufficient condition for a flat manifold with cyclic holonomy to have a spin structure.     

A global weak solution to the Lorentzian harmonic map flow

We investigate a parabolic-elliptic system which is related to a harmonic map from a compact Riemann surface with a smooth boundary into a Lorentzian manifold with a warped product metric.We prove that there exists a unique global weak solution for this system which is regular except for at most finitely many singular points.     

曲率二次衰减的完备流形的基本群

本文研究曲率二次衰减的完备黎曼流形,证明了若它的直径增长满足小的线性增长条件,则其基本群是有限生成的.