Singularities of lightlike hypersurfaces in Minkowski four-space

DOI10.2748/tmj/1145390206zbMath1111.53018OpenAlexW2045928420MaRDI QIDQ2498050

Marek Kossowski, Dong He Pei, María Carmen Romero Fuster, Shyuichi Izumiya

Publication date: 9 August 2006

Published in: Tôhoku Mathematical Journal. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2748/tmj/1145390206

zbMATH Keywords

eikonal equationspace-like surfacelight-like hypersurfacelightconeLorentzian distance-squared function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local submanifolds (53B25) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30)

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