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By Shoichi Fujimori, Yu Kawakami, Masatoshi Kokubu (auth.), Miguel Sánchez, MIguel Ortega, Alfonso Romero (eds.)

Traditionally, Lorentzian geometry has been used as an important instrument to appreciate normal relativity, in addition to to discover new actual geometric behaviors, faraway from classical Riemannian thoughts. fresh development has attracted a renewed curiosity during this idea for lots of researchers: long-standing international open difficulties were solved, awesome Lorentzian areas and teams were labeled, new functions to mathematical relativity and excessive strength physics were stumbled on, and additional connections with different geometries were built.

Samples of those clean developments are awarded during this quantity, in response to contributions from the VI overseas assembly on Lorentzian Geometry, held on the collage of Granada, Spain, in September, 2011. themes comparable to geodesics, maximal, trapped and relentless suggest curvature submanifolds, classifications of manifolds with suitable symmetries, relatives among Lorentzian and Finslerian geometries, and purposes to mathematical physics are incorporated. ​

This ebook should be appropriate for a extensive viewers of differential geometers, mathematical physicists and relativists, and researchers within the field.

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Since Za = Zγ , we have γγ = γ γ , a contradiction. Thus a = ±e0 and ϕ (IΓ ) consists of a point. 1, we applied the following assertion, which can be proved easily. 2. We set E := α 0 0 α −1 (α ∈ C \ {1, 0}), H := α β β α (α 2 − β 2 = 1, α , β ∈ C), P := β 1 + iβ 1 − iβ β (β ∈ C \ {0}). Then the centers of them in SL(2, C) are given as follows: ZE = ez 0 0 e−z ;z∈C , 46 S. Fujimori et al. ZH = ± ZP = cosh z sinh z sinh z cosh z 1 + iz z z 1 − iz ;z∈C , ;z∈C . Acknowledgements The authors thank Sadayoshi Kojima and Shingo Kawai for their valuable comments.

G and Q are the hyperbolic Gauss map and the Hopf differential of f . 2. d σ 2f coincides with the initially given metric d σ 2 . In particular, the secondary Gauss map of f is the developing map of d σ 2 . Hyperbolic Metrics and Space-Like CMC-1 Surfaces 21 Proof. Let p1 , . . , pn be points where the metric ds2# := (1 + |G|2)2 Q dG 2 diverges. ) Since G and Q are meromorphic, ds2# is complete at each p j ( j = 1, . . , n). ,pn := M \ {p1, . . ,pn its universal covering space. Then the monodromy representation ρF with respect to f coincides with the lift of the monodromy representation of d σ 2 , and ρF takes values in SU(1, 1).

So this case does not occur, which implies that the projective connection S(d σ 2 ) associated to d σ 2 is not trivial, when d σ 2 is PS-free. Next, we consider the case that c = 0. Since a homothetic change of lattice Γ does not affect the complex structure of torus C/Γ , we may assume that v1 > 0 and v2 = r + π i where r ∈ R. If we set t := ± −c/2(= 0), then Sz (e2tz ) = c holds. The developing map of d σ 2 should be g = a e2tz (a ∈ SL(2, C)). Then we have that ρ (v j ) = a e−tv j 0 0 etv j a−1 ( j = 1, 2).

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