Mapped Null Hypersurfaces and Legendrian Maps

Details Mapped Null Hypersurfaces and Legendrian Maps Mapped Null Hypersurfaces and Legendrian Maps

2007-02-11

arxiv.org/abs/math/0702305v1

J.Geom.Phys.57:2114-2123,2007

Mathematics

Differential Geometry

13 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.geomphys.2007.05.005

For an $(m+1)$-dimensional space-time $(X^{m+1}, g),$ define a mapped null hypersurface to be a smooth map $\nu:N^{m}\to X^{m+1}$ (that is not necessarily an immersion) such that there exists a smooth field of null lines along $\nu$ that are both tangent and $g$-orthogonal to $\nu.$ We study relations between mapped null hypersurfaces and Legendrian maps to the spherical cotangent bundle $ST^*M$ of an immersed spacelike hypersurface $\mu:M^m\to X^{m+1}.$ We show that a Legendrian map $\wt \lambda: L^{m-1}\to (ST^*M)^{2m-1}$ defines a mapped null hypersurface in $X.$ On the other hand, the intersection of a mapped null hypersurface $\nu:N^m\to X^{m+1}$ with an immersed spacelike hypersurface $\mu':M'^m\to X^{m+1}$ defines a Legendrian map to the spherical cotangent bundle $ST^*M'.$ This map is a Legendrian immersion if $\nu$ came from a Legendrian immersion to $ST^*M$ for some immersed spacelike hypersurface $\mu:M^m\to X^{m+1}.$

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