Intrinsic geometry of a null hypersurface

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/17/19/308MaRDI QIDQ4521655zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pawel Nurowski, D. C. Robinson

Publication date 2000

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0006047

zbMATH Keywords

Lorentzian spacetimenull hypersurface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30)

Abstract: We apply Cartan's method of equivalence to construct invariants of a given null hypersurface in a Lorentzian space-time. This enables us to fully classify the internal geometry of such surfaces and hence solve the local equivalence problem for null hypersurface structures in 4-dimensional Lorentzian space-times.

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