Infinitesimal and local convexity of a hypersurface in a semi-Riemannian manifold

DOI10.1007/978-1-4614-4897-6_6MaRDI QIDQ2861898zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Erasmo Caponio

Publication date 11 November 2013

Published in Recent Trends in Lorentzian Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.0147

zbMATH Keywords

geodesicshypersurfacelocal convexitygeometric convexityinfinitesimal convexity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global submanifolds (53C40) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

Abstract: Given a Riemannian manifold M and a hypersurface H in M, it is well known that infinitesimal convexity on a neighborhood of a point in H implies local convexity. We show in this note that the same result holds in a semi-Riemannian manifold. We make some remarks for the case when only timelike, null or spacelike geodesics are involved. The notion of geometric convexity is also reviewed and some applications to geodesic connectedness of an open subset of a Lorentzian manifold are given.

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