The fibre bundle of degenerate tangent planes of a Lorentzian manifold and the smoothness of the null sectional curvature

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2007.06.013MaRDI QIDQ2472645zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Francisco J. Palomo

Publication date 22 February 2008

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.difgeo.2007.06.013

zbMATH Keywords

degenerate tangent planesLorentzian manifoldsnull sectional curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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