The canonical contact structure on the space of oriented null geodesics of pseudospheres and products

DOI10.1515/advgeom-2013-0019zbMath1302.37027OpenAlexW2335764612MaRDI QIDQ2858023

Marcos Salvai, Yamile Godoy

Publication date: 19 November 2013

Published in: advg (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/8933

zbMATH Keywords

contactomorphismnull-billiardsspace of null geodesics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spaces of embeddings and immersions (58D10) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30)

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