Foliations of Minkowski \(2+1\) spacetime by crooked planes (Q6486824)

``A crooked plane consists of three parts: two half-planes, called wings, and a pair of opposite planar sectors, called its stem. The wings lie in null planes and the stem lies in a time-like plane'' (definition quoted from \textit{T. D. Drumm} and \textit{W. M. Goldman} [Topology 38, No. 2, 323--351 (1999; Zbl 0941.51029)]). The paper under review studies families of pairwise disjoint crooked planes.NEWLINENEWLINE In particular, necessary and sufficient conditions are found for a given regular curve to consist of vertices of such a crooked foliation. Using this criterion, the authors describe crooked foliations along orbit curves of one-parameter groups of Lorentzian isometries in 3-space.