The Contact Structure in the Space of Light Rays

zbMath1346.53063arXiv1510.08139MaRDI QIDQ2990338

A. Bautista, J. Lafuente, Alberto Ibort

Publication date: 29 July 2016

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.08139

zbMATH Keywords

light rayscontact structurescausal structurenull geodesicstrongly causal spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30)

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