Transverse Riemann-Lorentz type-changing metrics with polar end

MaRDI QIDQ6477302zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Javier Lafuente López

Publication date 2 June 2006

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

Abstract: Consider a smooth manifold $M$ with a smooth cometric $g^{ast}$ which changes the bilineal type by transverse way, on a hypersurface $D^{infty}$. Suppose that the radical annihilator hyperplane is tangent to $D^{infty}$. We examine the geometry of the ($g^{ast}$-dual) covariant metric $g$ on $M-$ $D^{infty}$, prove the existence of a canonical (polar-normal) vectorfield whose integral curves are $C^{infty}-$pregeodesics crossing $D^{infty}$ transversely for each point, and analyze the curvature behavior using a natural coordinates. Finally we give an approach to the conformal geometry of such spaces and suggest some application as cosmological big-bang model.

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