Differential geometric aspects of causal structures

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2018.080MaRDI QIDQ1671681zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Omid Makhmali

Publication date 7 September 2018

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.02542

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zbMATH Keywords

Cartan connection causal geometry conformal geometry equivalence method parabolic geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects (53A55) Twistor methods in differential geometry (53C28) Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory) (58A15) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30)

Abstract: This article is concerned with causal structures, which are defined as a field of tangentially non-degenerate projective hypersurfaces in the projectivized tangent bundle of a manifold. The local equivalence problem of causal structures on manifolds of dimension at least four is solved using Cartan's method of equivalence, leading to an

e

-structure over some principal bundle. It is shown that these structures correspond to parabolic geometries of type

(D_{n}, P_{1, 2})

and

(B_{n - 1}, P_{1, 2})

, when

n g e q 4

, and

(D_{3}, P_{1, 2, 3})

. The essential local invariants are determined and interpreted geometrically. Several special classes of causal structures are considered including those that are a lift of pseudo-conformal structures and those referred to as causal structures with vanishing Wsf curvature. A twistorial construction for causal structures with vanishing Wsf curvature is given.

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