Singular points of lightlike hypersurfaces of the de Sitter space

1998/06/04 by Maks A. Akivis, Vladislav V. Goldberg
Mathematics · #math.DG #msc:53B25

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published as Publ. Inst. Math. (Beograd) 63 (77) (1998) 81-101 · LaTeX, 22 pages

arxiv created 1998/06/04 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

The authors study singular points of lightlike hypersurfaces of the de Sitter space Sⁿ⁺¹₁ and the geometry of hypersurfaces and use them for construction of an invariant normalization and an invariant affine connection of lightlike hypersurfaces.

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