On null submanifolds in spacetimes

zbMATH Open0625.53019MaRDI QIDQ579633FDOQ579633

Authors: Demir N. Kupeli 

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

second fundamental tensornull congruencesnull line subbundlenull submanifoldsRiemannian vector bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Local submanifolds (53B25)

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