Crooked halfspaces

DOI10.4171/LEM/60-1/2-4MaRDI QIDQ482041zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jean-Philippe Burelle, Virginie Charette, Todd A. Drumm, William M. Goldman

Publication date 19 December 2014

Published in L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.4177

zbMATH Keywords

crooked halfspacecrooked planehalfplane in the hyperbolic planeMinkowski spacenullparticlephotontachyon

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80)

Abstract: We develop the Lorentzian geometry of a crooked halfspace in 2+1-dimensional Minkowski space. We calculate the affine, conformal and isometric automorphism groups of a crooked halfspace, and discuss its stratification into orbit types, giving an explicit slice for the action of the automorphism group. The set of parallelism classes of timelike lines, or particles, in a crooked halfspace is a geodesic halfplane in the hyperbolic plane. Every point in an open crooked halfspace lies on a particle. The correspondence between crooked halfspaces and halfplanes in hyperbolic 2-space preserves the partial order defined by inclusion, and the involution defined by complementarity. We find conditions for when a particle lies completely in a crooked half space. We revisit the disjointness criterion for crooked planes developed by Drumm and Goldman in terms of the semigroup of translations preserving a crooked halfspace. These ideas are then applied to describe foliations of Minkowski space by crooked planes.

Review text

Summary: We develop the Lorentzian geometry of a crooked halfspace in \((2+1)\)-dimensional Minkowski space. We calculate the affine, conformal and isometric automorphism groups of a crooked halfspace, and discuss its stratification into orbit types, giving an explicit slice for the action of the automorphism group. The set of parallelism classes of time-like lines, or particles, in a crooked halfspace is a geodesic halfplane in the hyperbolic plane. Every point in an open crooked halfspace lies on a particle. The correspondence between crooked halfspaces and halfplanes in hyperbolic 2-space preserves the partial order defined by inclusion, and the involution defined by complementarity. We find conditions for when a particle lies completely in a crooked half space. We revisit the disjointness criterion for crooked planes developed by Drumm and Goldman in terms of the semigroup of translations preserving a crooked halfspace. These ideas are then applied to describe foliations of Minkowski space by crooked planes.

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