Null congruence spacetimes constructed from 3-dimensional Robertson-Walker spaces

Null congruence spacetimes are constructed from three-dimensional time-orientable Lorentzian manifolds by taking a particular ellipse in the lightcone above every point. Starting from a three-dimensional Robertson-Walker space, new null congruence spacetimes are obtained and several of their curvature properties are deduced. In particular, it is shown that the static Einstein universe is locally isometric to a certain null congruence spacetime. Furthermore, a method is given to construct trapped surfaces which admit an isometric spacelike circle action in null congruence spacetimes.