Singularities of lightlike hypersurfaces in Minkowski four-space (Q2498050): Difference between revisions

The authors classify the singularities of light-like hypersurfaces in Minkowski space, in terms of the contact invariants for space-like surfaces and lightcones. They use the Lorentzian distance-squared function on space-like surfaces and Montaldi's characterization of submanifolds contact in terms of \(\mathcal K\)-equivalence. The results still rest valid on sufficiently small neighborhoods in any Lorentzian manifold.