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Tuesday, April 14, 2026

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10am
Geometric Analysis Learning Seminar [3]
04/14/2026 - 10:30am

TBA

Location:
KT 801
 
4pm
From Riemannian to Lorentzian: Embeddings of Signature-Changing Manifolds [4]
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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