arXiv research

New definition of envelopes for curves in Lorentz-Minkowski plane, including singular points.

There are three types of hypersurfaces in a pseudoconformal space C^n_1 of Lorentzian signature: spacelike, timelike, and lightlike. These three types of hypersurfaces are considered in parallel. Spacelike hypersurfaces are endowed with a proper conformal structure, and timelike hypersurfaces are endowed with a conform…

This paper studies lightlike Cartan geometries and their properties.

Study the geometry of lightlike loci on mixed type surfaces in Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space.

Introduces new lightlike submanifolds in indefinite Kaehler manifolds.

Lightlike manifolds studied via Cartan geometries in Lorentz-Minkowski spacetime.

The paper studies half-lightlike submanifolds in Lorentzian manifolds with specific distributions.

Study on lightlike hypersurfaces in metallic semi-Riemannian manifolds.

We prove that the topology, smooth structure, and metric of a compact Lorentzian manifold with boundary is uniquely determined by data at the boundary. The data consists of the lengths and directions of future-directed once-broken geodesics connecting points on the boundary, which are first timelike and then lightlike.…

Study lightlike submanifolds in indefinite statistical manifolds, finding conditions and curvature expressions.

Study of spacelike submanifolds with umbilical lightlike normals in Lorentzian spacetimes.

Lightlike hypersurfaces in statistical manifolds have unique geometric properties.

In this paper we study lightlike surfaces of Minkowski 3- space such that they have degenerate or non-degenerate planar normal sections. We first show that every lightlike surface of Minkowski $3-$ space has degenerate planar normal sections. Then we study lightlike surfaces with non-degenerate planar normal sections a…

Study on lightlike geometry in indefinite Sasakian statistical manifolds.

Tangential families are 1-parameter families of rays emanating tangentially from smooth curves. We classify tangential family germs up to Left-Right equivalence: we prove that there are two infinite series and four sporadic simple singularities of tangential family germs (in addition to two stable singularities). We gi…

New method to construct partner curves of non-lightlike curves.

In this paper, we initiate the study of lightlike hypersurfaces of an $(ε)$-almost paracontact metric manifold which are tangent to the structure vector field. In particular, we give definitions of invariant lightlike hypersurfaces and screen semi-invariant lightlike hypersurfaces, and give some examples. Integrability…

Study on Dirac operators on lightlike hypersurfaces in 4D Lorentzian manifolds.

Study on lightlike submanifolds in statistical manifold geometry.

Study on lightlike submanifolds in metallic semi-Riemannian manifolds.

Study the geometry of specific submanifolds in Golden Semi-Riemannian manifolds.

Study on SASI-lightlike submanifolds in indefinite Kaehler manifolds.

We study the geometry of curves in the Minkowski space and in the de Sitter space, specially at points where the tangent direction is lightlike (i.e. has length zero) called lightlike points of the curve. We define the focal sets of these curves and study the metric structure of them. At the lightlike points, the focal…

The paper studies lightlike submanifolds in bronze semi-Riemannian manifolds with specific geometric properties.

The paper explores reflection principles for lightlike line segments on maximal surfaces.

Study shows lightlike hypersurfaces in indefinite Sasakian manifolds are not symmetric.

In this paper, we introduce and study a new class of CR-lightlike submanifold of an indefinite nearly Sasakian manifold, called Quasi Generalized Cauchy-Riemann (QGCR) lightlike submanifold. We give some characterization theorems for the existence of QGCR-lightlike submanifolds and finally derive necessary and sufficie…

The authors study the geometry of lightlike hypersurfaces on manifolds $(M, c)$ endowed with a pseudoconformal structure $c = CO (n - 1, 1)$ of Lorentzian signature. Such hypersurfaces are of interest in general relativity since they can be models of different types of physical horizons. On a lightlike hypersurface, th…

Study the geometry of transversal lightlike submanifolds in Metallic Semi-Riemannian manifolds.

Study on CR-lightlike submanifolds in golden semi-Riemannian manifolds.

The concept of quasi generalized CR-lightlike was first introduced by the authors in [18]. In this paper, we focus on ascreen and co-screen quasi generalized CR-lightlike submanifolds of indefinite nearly $μ$-Sasakian manifold. We prove an existence theorem for minimal ascreen quasi generalized CR-lightlike submanifold…

We study tangential families, i.e. systems of rays emanating tangentially from given curves. We classify, up to Left-Right equivalence, stable singularities of tangential family germs (under deformations among tangential families) and we study their envelopes. We discuss applications of our results to the case of tange…

It is proved that the geometry of lightlike hypersurfaces of the de Sitter space S^{n+1}_1 is directly connected with the geometry of hypersurfaces of the conformal space C^n. This connection is applied for a construction of an invariant normalization and an invariant affine connection of lightlike hypersurfaces as wel…

Study on bounded Gaussian curvature in mixed type surfaces of Lorentzian manifolds.

Study lightlike submanifolds in Golden Semi-Riemannian geometry.

The paper studies deformations of mixed type surfaces in Lorentz-Minkowski space.

The main purpose of this paper is to give fundamental properties of real lightlike hypersurfaces of paraquaternionic manifolds and to prove the non-existence of real lightlike hypersurfaces in paraquaternionic space forms under some conditions.

In this paper, we study Jacobi operators associated to algebraic curvature maps (tensors) on lightlike submanifolds M. We investigate conditions for an induced Rie- mann curvature tensor to be an algebraic curvature tensor on M. We introduce the notion of lightlike Osserman submanifolds and an example of 2-degenerate O…

The study solves conditions for minimal strips containing lightlike curves in 4D spacetime.

Study on properties of tangential hypersurfaces in product-like manifolds.

In a metric $g.f.f$-manifold we study lightlike hypersurfaces $M$ tangent to the characteristic vector fields, and owing to the presence of the $f$-structure, we determine some decompositions of $TM$ and of a chosen screen distribution obtaining two distributions invariant with respect to the structure. We discuss the …

In this paper we introduce radical transversal lightlike hypersurfaces of almost complex manifolds with Norden metric. The study of these hypersurfaces is motivated by the fact that for indefinite almost Hermitian manifolds this class of lightlike hypersurfaces does not exist. We also establish that radical transversal…

The authors study singular points of lightlike hypersurfaces of the de Sitter space S^{n+1}_1 and the geometry of hypersurfaces and use them for construction of an invariant normalization and an invariant affine connection of lightlike hypersurfaces.

An n-dimensional submanifold X of a projective space P^N (C) is called tangentially degenerate if the rank of its Gauss mapping γ: X ---> G (n, N) satisfies 0 < rank γ< n. The authors systematically study the geometry of tangentially degenerate submanifolds of a projective space $P^N (\mathbf{C})$. By means of the foca…

Lightlike hypersurfaces in cone structures minimize time.

Study proves no lightlike hypersurfaces exist in certain indefinite Sasakian manifolds.

We investigate half-lightlike submanifolds with planar normal sections of four dimensional pseudo Euclidean space. We obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for a half-lightlike submanifold of $R_{2}^{4}$ such that it has degenerate or non-degenerate planar normal sections.

Study lightlike hypersurfaces in a specific type of manifold.