On the bundle of null cones

DOI10.1142/S0219887823500238MaRDI QIDQ6188744zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Andrew James Bruce

Publication date 11 January 2024

Published in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.11645

zbMATH Keywords

Lorentzian manifoldsnull conessemi-heaps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Sphere bundles and vector bundles in algebraic topology (55R25)

Abstract: We examine the bundle structure of the field of nowhere vanishing null vector fields on a (time-oriented) Lorentzian manifold. Sections of what we refer to as the null tangent, are by definition nowhere vanishing null vector fields. It is shown that the set of nowhere vanishing null vector fields comes equipped with a para-associative ternary partial product. Moreover, the null tangent bundle is an example of a non-polynomial graded bundle.

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