Isometric immersions into the Minkowski spacetime for Lorentzian manifolds with limited regularity (Q1001790)

The authors consider isometric immersions into Minkowski space-time for Lorentzian manifolds assuming minimal regularity data on the data. This involves metrics having Sobolev regularity and Riemannian curvature defined in the distributional sense. Their results are applicable to timelike, spacelike, and null hypersurfaces having arbitrary signature that may change from point to point. Contents include: An introduction (which includes statements of their three main theorems); Notation and preliminaries; Immersion of a Lorentzian manifold; Immersion of a hypersurface with general signature; Immersion of a spacelike or timelike hypersurface; and References (nine items).