Lightlike Hypersurfaces on Manifolds Endowed with a Conformal Structure of Lorentzian Signature

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, the authors consider the fibration of isotropic geodesics and investigate their singular points and singular submanifolds. They construct a conformally invariant normalization of a lightlike hypersurface intrinsically connected with its geometry and investigate affine connections induced by this normalization. The authors also consider special classes of lightlike hypersurfaces. In particular, they investigate lightlike hypersurfaces for which the elements of the constructed normalization are integrable.     

Pseudosymmetric Lightlike Hypersurfaces in Indefinite Sasakian Space Forms

We study pseudosymmetric lightlike hypersurfaces of an indefinite Sasakian space form, tangent to the structure vector field. We obtain sufficient conditions for a lightlike hypersurface to be pseudosymmetric, pseudoparallel and Ricci-pseudosymmetric in an indefinite Sasakian space form. We also find certain conditions for a pseudosymmetric lightlike hypersurface of an indefinite Sasakian space form to be totally geodesic and check the effect of Weyl projective pseudosymmetry conditions on the geometry of a lightlike hypersurface of an indefinite Sasakian space form. Moreover we give some physical interpretations of pseudo-symmetry conditions.     

Geometry of lightlike hypersurfaces of an indefinite Sasakian manifold

In this paper, we study the geometry of lightlike hypersurfaces of an indefinite Sasakian manifold. The main result is to prove three characterization theorems for such a lightlike hypersurface. In addition to these main theorems, we study the geometry of totally geodesic lightlike hypersurfaces of an indefinite Sasakian manifold.     

Lightlike Hypersurfaces in Indefinite Trans-Sasakian Manifolds

This paper deals with lightlike hypersurfaces of indefinite trans-Sasakian manifolds of type (α, β), tangent to the structure vector field. Characterization Theorems on parallel vector fields, integrable distributions, minimal distributions, Ricci-semi symmetric, geodesibility of lightlike hypersurfaces are obtained. The geometric configuration of lightlike hypersurfaces is established. We prove, under some conditions, that there are no parallel and totally contact umbilical lightlike hypersurfaces of trans-Sasakian space forms, tangent to the structure vector field. We show that there exists a totally umbilical distribution in an Einstein parallel lightlike hypersurface which does not contain the structure vector field. We characterize the normal bundle along any totally contact umbilical leaf of an integrable screen distribution. We finally prove that the geometry of any leaf of an integrable distribution is closely related to the geometry of a normal bundle and its image under ${\overline{\phi}}$ .     

Lightlike real hypersurfaces of indefinite quaternion Kaehler manifold

In this paper, we introduce real lightlike hypersurfaces of indefinite quaternion Kaehler manifold. Fundamental properties of real lightlike hypersurfaces of an indefinite quaternion Kaehler manifold are investigated. We prove the non existence of real lightlike hypersurfaces in indefinite qaternionic space form under some conditions. Received 31 October 2000; revised 20 June 2001.     

On lightlike geometry in indefinite Kenmotsu manifolds

We investigate some geometric aspects of lightlike hypersurfaces of indefinite Kenmotsu manifolds, tangent to the structure vector field, by paying attention to the geometry of leaves of integrable distributions. Theorems on parallel vector fields, Killing distribution, geodesibility of their leaves are obtained. The geometric configuration of such lightlike hypersurfaces and leaves of its screen integrable distributions are established. We show that no totally contact umbilical leaf of a screen integrable distribution of a lightlike hypersurface can be an extrinsic sphere. We also prove that the geometry of any leaf of an integrable distribution is closely related to the geometry of a normal bundle.     

Generalized Cauchy-Riemann lightlike submanifolds of indefinite Sasakian manifolds

We study a class of submanifolds, called Generalized Cauchy-Riemann (GCR) lightlike submanifolds of indefinite Sasakian manifolds as an umbrella of invariant, screen real, contact CR lightlike subcases [8] and real hypersurfaces [9]. We prove existence and non-existence theorems and a characterization theorem on minimal GCR-lightlike submanifolds.     

Submanifolds in Manifolds with Metric Mixed 3-Structures

Mixed 3-structures are odd-dimensional analogues of paraquaternionic structures. They appear naturally on lightlike hypersurfaces of almost paraquaternionic hermitian manifolds. We study invariant and anti-invariant submanifolds in a manifold endowed with a mixed 3-structure and a compatible (semi-Riemannian) metric. Particular attention is given to two cases of ambient space: mixed 3-Sasakian and mixed 3-cosymplectic.     

Real Lightlike Hypersurfaces of Paraquaternionic Kähler Manifolds

The main purpose of this paper is to give basic properties of real lightlike hypersurfaces of paraquaternionic manifold and to prove the nonexistence of real lightlike hypersurfaces in paraquaternionic space forms under some conditions. Dedicated to the memory of Professor Aldo Cossu     

Lightlike Hypersurfaces of a Golden Semi-Riemannian Manifold

We introduce lightlike hypersurfaces of a golden semi-Riemannian manifold. We investigate several properties of lightlike hypersurfaces of a golden semi-Riemannian manifold. We prove that there is no radical anti-invariant lightlike hypersurface of a golden semi-Riemannian manifold. In particular, we obtain some results for screen semi-invariant lightlike hypersurfaces of a golden semi-Riemannian manifold. Moreover, we study screen conformal screen semi-invariant lightlike hypersurfaces.     

Radical transversal lightlike hypersurfaces of almost complex manifolds with Norden metric

In this paper we introduce radical transversal lightlike hypersurfaces of almost complex manifolds with Norden metric. Such class of lightlike hypersurfaces cannot exist for indefinite almost Hermitian manifolds. The considered lightlike hypersurfaces have two important properties. The first one is the uniqueness of their screen distributions, which implies that the induced geometric objects are well-defined. The second property is that the induced Ricci tensor on radical transversal lightlike hypersurface of a Kähler manifold with Norden metric is symmetric. This allows to define an induced scalar curvature of the hypersurface. We obtain new results about lightlike hypersurfaces concerning their relations with non-degenerate hypersurfaces of almost complex manifolds with Norden metric. Examples of the considered hypersurfaces are given.     

The lightlike flat geometry on spacelike submanifolds of codimension two in Minkowski space

We introduce the notion of the lightcone Gauss–Kronecker curvature for a spacelike submanifold of codimension two in Minkowski space, which is a generalization of the ordinary notion of Gauss curvature of hypersurfaces in Euclidean space. In the local sense, this curvature describes the contact of such submanifolds with lightlike hyperplanes. We study geometric properties of such curvatures and show a Gauss–Bonnet type theorem. As examples we have hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space, spacelike hypersurfaces in the lightcone and spacelike hypersurfaces in de Sitter space.     

On semi-parallel lightlike hypersurfaces of indefinite Kenmotsu manifolds

We study semi-parallel lightlike hypersurfaces of an indefinite Kenmotsu manifold, tangent to the structure vector field. Some Theorems on parallel and semi-parallel vector field, geodesibility of lightlike hypersurfaces are obtained. The geometrical configuration of such lightlike hypersurfaces is established. We prove that, in totally contact umbilical lightlike hypersurfaces of an indefinite Kenmotsu manifold which has constant ${\overline{\phi}}$ -holomorphic sectional curvature c, tangent to the structure vector field and such that its distribution is parallel, the parallelism and semi-parallelism notions are equivalent.     

Notes on the Lightlike Hypersurfaces Along Spacelike Submanifolds

Ukrainian Mathematical Journal - In connection with the method of construction of lightlike hypersurfaces along spacelike submanifolds, we present a relation between the second fundamental form of...     

Lightcone dualities for hypersurfaces in the sphere

In this paper, we consider hypersurfaces in the unit lightlike sphere. The unit sphere can be canonically embedded in the lightcone and de Sitter space in Minkowski space. We investigate these hypersurfaces in the framework of the theory of Legendrian dualities between pseudo‐spheres in Minkowski space.     

Einstein-Weyl structures on lightlike hypersurfaces

We study Weyl structures on lightlike hypersurfaces endowed with a conformal structure of certain type and specific screen distribution: the Weyl screen structures. We investigate various differential geometric properties of Einstein-Weyl screen structures on lightlike hypersurfaces and show that, for ambient Lorentzian space ? ₁ ⁿ⁺² and a totally umbilical screen foliation, there is a strong interplay with the induced (Riemannian) Weyl-structure on the leaves.     

On projective-differential properties of point correspondences between three hypersurfaces

Point correspondences between three hypersurfaces of projective spaces are studied on the base of G. F. Laptev??s invariant methods [1] (Proc. of Moscow Math. Soc., 2, 275?C382, 1953). We establish the basic equations and geometrical objects of the point correspondences in question. We construct invariant normalizations of the hypersurfaces, single out the basic tensors of the correspondences, and establish a connection between the geometry of correspondences and the theory of multidimensional 3-webs.     

Complex affine distributions

Geometry of affine immersions is the study of hypersurfaces that are invariant under affine transformations. As with the hypersurface theory on the Euclidean space, an affine immersion can induce a torsion-free affine connection and a (pseudo)-Riemannian metric on the hypersurface. Moreover, an affine immersion can induce a statistical manifold, which plays a central role in information geometry. Recently, a statistical manifold with a complex structure is actively studied since it connects information geometry and Kähler geometry. However, a holomorphic complex affine immersion cannot induce such a statistical manifold with a Kähler structure. In this paper, we introduce complex affine distributions, which are non-integrable generalizations of complex affine immersions. We then present the fundamental theorem for a complex affine distribution, and show that a complex affine distribution can induce a statistical manifold with a Kähler structure.     

Screen conformal lightlike submanifolds of semi-Riemannian manifolds

Since the induced objects on a lightlike submanifold depend on its screen distribution which, in general, is not unique and hence we can not use the classical submanifold theory on a lightlike submanifold in the usual way. Therefore, in present paper, we study screen conformal lightlike submanifolds of a semi-Riemannian manifold, which are essential for the existence of unique screen distribution. We obtain a characterization theorem for the existence of screen conformal lightlike submanifolds of a semi-Riemannian manifold. We prove that if the differential operator D^s is a metric Otsuki connection on transversal lightlike bundle for a screen conformal lightlike submanifold then semi-Riemannian manifold is a semi-Euclidean space. We also obtain some characterization theorems for a screen conformal totally umbilical lightlike submanifold of a semi-Riemannian space form. Further, we obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for a screen conformal lightlike submanifold of constant curvature to be a semi-Euclidean space. Finally, we prove that for an irrotational screen conformal lightlike submanifold of a semi-Riemannian space form, the induced Ricci tensor is symmetric and the null sectional curvature vanishes.     

Generalized Cauchy--Riemann lightlike submanifolds of Kaehler manifolds

Summary We introduce a class of submanifolds, namely, Generalized Cauchy--Riemann (GCR) lightlike submanifolds of indefinite Kaehler manifolds. We show that this new class is an umbrella of invariant (complex), screen real [8] and CR lightlike [6] submanifolds. We study the existence (or non-existence) of this new class in an indefinite space form. Then, we prove characterization theorems on the existence of totally umbilical, irrotational screen real, complex and CR minimal lightlike submanifolds. We also give one example each of a non totally geodesic proper minimal GCR and CR lightlike submanifolds.