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Tuesday, April 14, 2026
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| 10am |
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| 4pm |
04/14/2026 - 4:00pm We examine a class of semi-Riemannian manifolds that undergo smooth metric signature change—from Riemannian to Lorentzian—across a hy- persurface with a transverse radical. This class includes physically mo- tivated cosmological models such as the Hartle-Hawking “no-boundary” proposal, in which the universe transitions smoothly from a Euclidean to a Lorentzian phase. We show that these manifolds admit isometric embeddings into higher-dimensional pseudo-Euclidean spaces and, in par- ticular, prove the existence of global isometric embeddings of the canonical model into both Minkowski and Misner spaces. This framework provides a mathematical setting for studying smooth signature change and its role in higher-dimensional and cosmological models. Location:
KT 203
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