Caustics and Maxwell sets of world sheets in anti-de Sitter space

2015/07/02 by Shyuichi Izumiya, Izumiya, Shyuichi
Mathematics · #Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics #math.DG

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1507.00428

arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1503.08888

arxiv created 2015/07/02 · arxiv updated 2015/07/03

Abstract

A world sheet in anti-de Sitter space is a timelike submanifold consisting of a one-parameter family of spacelike submanifolds. We consider the family of lightlike hypersurfaces along spacelike submanifolds in the world sheet. The locus of the singularities of lightlike hypersurfaces along spacelike submanifolds forms the caustic of the world sheet. This notion is originally introduced by Bousso and Randall in theoretical physics. In this paper we give a mathematical framework for the caustics of world sheets as an application of the theory of graph-like Legendrian unfoldings.

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