The canonical contact structure on the space of oriented null geodesics of pseudospheres and products

DOI10.1515/ADVGEOM-2013-0019zbMATH Open1302.37027OpenAlexW2335764612MaRDI QIDQ2858023FDOQ2858023

Authors: Yamile Godoy, Marcos Salvai 

Publication date: 19 November 2013

Published in: Advances in Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/8933

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zbMATH Keywords

contactomorphismnull-billiardsspace of null geodesics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25) Spaces of embeddings and immersions (58D10) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10)

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• On the space of null geodesics of a spacetime: the compact case, Engel geometry and retrievability
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• Pseudo-Riemannian geodesics and billiards
• Marginally trapped submanifolds in Lorentzian space forms and in the Lorentzian product of a space form by the real line

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