Lorentzian worldlines and the Schwarzian derivative

DOI10.1007/BF02482428MaRDI QIDQ1580170zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christian Duval, Valentin Ovsienko

Publication date 22 February 2001

Published in Functional Analysis and Its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9809062

zbMATH Keywords

Schwarzian derivativeLorentz metricconstant curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

Abstract: We relate in this note the classical Schwarzian derivative to the curvature of time-like curves in Lorentz surfaces of constant curvature.

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• Differentiable conjugacy for groups of area-preserving circle diffeomorphisms
• Coxeter's frieze patterns and discretization of the Virasoro orbit

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