Legendrian links, causality, and the low conjecture

DOI10.1007/s00039-009-0039-xzbMath1186.83013arXiv0810.5091OpenAlexW3100142664WikidataQ123019753 ScholiaQ123019753MaRDI QIDQ2269895

Yanyan Li

Publication date: 12 March 2010

Published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.5091

zbMATH Keywords

generating functionshodograph transformationcausalityCauchy surfaceLegendrian linksnull geodesicglobally hyperbolic space-time

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