Lorentzian isoparametric hypersurfaces in \(H_1^{n+1}\) (Q1127917)

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Lorentzian isoparametric hypersurfaces in \(H_1^{n+1}\)
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    Lorentzian isoparametric hypersurfaces in \(H_1^{n+1}\) (English)
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    10 August 1998
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    A hypersurface in an anti-de Sitter sphere \(H_1^{n+1}\) is called isoparametric if the minimal polynomial of the shape operator is constant. This allows complex or non-simple principal curvatures. In this paper, the local classification of the Lorentzian isoparametric hypersurfaces in \(H_1^{n+1}\) is obtained. More precisely, we show that there are four types of such hypersurfaces. Type I hypersurfaces are determined by two orthogonal subspaces of \(\mathbb{R}_2^{n+2}\) and the principal curvatures; type II and type III hypersurfaces are determined by two 1-parameter orthogonal subspaces of \(\mathbb{R}_2^{n+2}\) and the principal curvatures; and the type IV hypersurfaces are homogeneous.
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    isoparametric hypersurface
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    Lorentzian isoparametric hypersurface
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    Lorentzian space form
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