The Intrinsic Conformal Structure and Gauss Map of a Light-Like Hypersurface in Minkowski Space

DOI10.2307/2001289zbMath0691.53046OpenAlexW4241286605MaRDI QIDQ3032958

Marek Kossowski

Publication date: 1989

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2001289

zbMATH Keywords

Euler characteristicMinkowski spacenull geodesicslightlike hypersurfacesiconassociated Gauss map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Global submanifolds (53C40) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30)

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