We study the geometry of compact Lorentzian manifolds that admit a somewhere timelike Killing vector field, and whose isometry group has infinitely many connected components. Up to a finite cover, such manifolds are products (or amalgamated products) of a flat Lorentzian torus and a compact Riemannian (resp., lightlike) manifold.

A conventional Stokes description of polarized light is considered in a four-dimensional Lorentzian space, developing a seminal idea of Paul Soleillet [Ann. Phys. (Paris) 12, 23 (1929)]. This provides a striking interpretation for the degree of polarization and the Stokes decomposition of light beams. Malus law and reciprocity theorems for polarizers are studied using this Lorentzian formalism.

The aim of this paper is to determine Frenet-Serret invariants of non-null curves in Lorentzian 5-space. First, we define a vector product of four vectors, by this way, we present a method to calculate Frenet-Serret invariants of the non-null curves. Additionally, an algebraic example of presented method is illustrated. Keywords—Lorentzian 5-space; Frenet-Serret Invariants; Nonnull Curves.

We study the geometric structure of Lorentzian spin manifolds, which admit imaginary Killing spinors. The discussion is based on the cone construction and a normal form classification of skew-adjoint operators in signature (2, n−2). Derived geometries include Brinkmann spaces, Lorentzian Einstein-Sasaki spaces and certain warped product structures. Exceptional cases with decomposable holonomy o...

The dynamic spin susceptibility (DSS) has a ubiquitous Lorentzian form around the Zeeman energy in conventional materials with weak spin orbit coupling, whose spectral width characterizes the spin relaxation rate. We show that DSS has an unusual non-Lorentzian form in topological insulators, which are characterized by strong SOC, and the anisotropy of the DSS reveals the orientation of the unde...

If the Lorentzian norm on a maximal surface in the 3-dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space R 1 is positive and proper, then the surface is relative parabolic. As a consequence, entire maximal graphs with a closed set of isolated singularities are relative parabolic. Furthermore, maximal and minimal graphs over closed starlike domains in R 1 and R, respectively, are relative parabolic.

Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), a lithographic technique capable of manufacturing nanometer-sized devices, is a promising alternative to modern lithographic methods. Performing physical simulations to replicate the AFM process is not feasible for large surface simulations, therefore a Monte Carlo approach must be considered. Previous research showed that the physical shape of an oxide dot or wir...

We prove that Schur classes of nef vector bundles are limits have a property analogous to the Hodge-Riemann bilinear relations. give number applications, including (1) new log-concavity statements about characteristic (2) and related polynomials (3) another proof normalized Lorentzian.

The object of the present paper is to study three-dimensional Lorentzian -Sasakian manifolds which are Ricci-semisymmetry, locally symmetric and have -parallel Ricci tensor. An example of a three-dimensional Lorentzian -Sasakian manifold is given which verifies all the Theorems.

We study manifolds with Lorentzian signature and prove that all scalar curvature invariants of all orders vanish in a higher-dimensional Lorentzian spacetime if and only if there exists an aligned non-expanding, non-twisting, geodesic null direction along which the Riemann tensor has negative boost order.