A generalization of the Mariot theorem on congruences of null geodesics

DOI10.1098/RSPA.1986.0039zbMATH Open0588.53018OpenAlexW1983520159MaRDI QIDQ3715787FDOQ3715787

Authors: Ivor Robinson, Andrzej Trautman 

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1986.0039

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zbMATH Keywords

null geodesicscongruence of curvesflag structuregeodesic property

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15)

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• Robinson manifolds as the Lorentzian analogs of Hermite manifolds.
• Geometry and symmetries of null G-structures

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