No label defined (Q4943783)

A lightlike hypersurface \(V\) is tangent to the light cone \(C_x\) at each point \(x\in V\) and therefore is foliated by its isotropic geodesic lines. Each of the latter carries \(n-2\) real singular points, where \(n\) is the dimension of the ambient manifold (see the title) and these points are counted with their multiplicities. The main result gives a construction of a conformally invariant normalization of \(V\) intrinsically connected with its geometry. This normalization induces a torsion-free affine connection on \(V\), which is determined in a fourth-order differential neighborhood of a point \(x\in V\) by means of these singular points. The necessary definitions are given, the needed apparatus is developed. The main and auxiliary results are formulated in eight theorems, but the more detailed proofs will appear in a forthcoming paper. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0923.00021].