scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1182470
In earlier work [\textit{B. Carter}, J. Geom. Phys. 8, 53-88 (1992; Zbl 0747.53016)], the author used a pure background tensor formalism to analyze ``individual embedded timelike or spacelike \(p\)-dimensional surfaces in a flat or curved \(n\)-dimensional spacetime background. Here this formalism is extended to treat a smooth foliation by a congruence of such surfaces. The complete orthonormal frame bundle (with the relevant group of rotations in \(n\) dimensions) has a natural reduction to the bundle of naturally-adapted frames (with the direct product of the subgroup of tangential frame rotations in \(p\) dimensions and the complementary subgroup of orthogonal frame rotations in \((n-p)\) dimensions). The reduced frame bundle itself has a naturally-endowed preferred connection (which preserves the metric, but is generally non-symmetric) and an associated foliation curvature tensor which is generally distinct from the ordinary Riemannian background curvature. The author shows how ``this foliation curvature tensor can be projected, orthogonally or tangentially, with respect to the embedded surfaces to give relations of which the generalized Codazzi and Raychaudhuri identities are particular cases. The author therefore describes the extension of the original Raychaudhuri equation to higher dimensional foliations (as noted by the author: ``in a manner recently suggested by \textit{R. Capovilla} and \textit{J. Guven} [Phys. Rev. D, III. Ser. 52, 1072-1081 (1995; MR 96g:83138)]), and shows how the extended Raychaudhuri identity is related to the correspondingly extended Codazzi identity. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0890.00046].
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