Lorentzian worldlines and the Schwarzian derivative

DOI10.1007/BF02482428zbMATH Open0962.53043arXivmath/9809062OpenAlexW1990834882MaRDI QIDQ1580170FDOQ1580170

Authors: Christian Duval, Valentin Ovsienko 

Publication date: 22 February 2001

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

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

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)

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• Isometries of Lorentz surfaces and convergence groups
• Variations on R. Schwartz's inequality for the Schwarzian derivative

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