Curves in a spacelike hypersurface in Minkowski space-time (Q824122)

The purpose of the article under review is to study the ``extrinsic geometry'' of curves in Euclidean and semi-Euclidean spaces based on deformation theory of singularities. More precisely, the authors are interested in describing the differential geometry of the hyperbolic surface and the de Sitter surface of a curve that are defined in the spacelike hypersurface in Minkowski 4-space and contained in the hyperbolic 3-subspace of the Minkowski four-dimensional space-time and in the de Sitter 3-space, respectively. Among other things, they describe the basic properties of such surfaces, including their generic shape and singularity loci, explore the problem of classification, and discuss in detail the geometric meaning of the corresponding singularities in a manner similar to [\textit{S. Izumiya} et al., J. Singul. 16, 180--193 (2017; Zbl 1377.53016); J. Geom. Phys. 97, 105--118 (2015; Zbl 1323.58028)].