Semi-Riemannian maps and their applications

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This book deals with maps between semi-Riemannian manifolds. As usual, an isometric immersion \(f: (M_1,g_1) \to (M_2,g_2)\) is characterized by the equation \(f^*g_2=g_1\). For more general maps which are neither immersions nor submersions, this definition does not seem to be appropriate. Instead, the authors suggest the notion of a semi-Riemannian map which roughly is a map which is `as isometric as it can be'. The technical details are fairly complicated, involving considerations about the kernel and the range of \(f\), their orthogonal complements, and quotient spaces. All these technical details are carefully worked out in Chapters 1-5 as follows: Chapter 1: Linear Algebra of indefinite inner product spaces, Chapter 2: Semi-Riemannian manifolds, Chapter 3: The second fundamental form of a map, Chapter 4: Semi-Riemannian maps, Chapter 5: Semi-Riemannian transversal maps. The applications (according to the title of the book) are represented by the semi-Riemannian regular interval theorem in Chapter 6 and Lorentzian splitting theorems in Chapter 7.




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