Mutual exclusiveness among spacelike, timelike, and lightlike leaves in totally geodesic foliations of lightlike complete Lorentzian two-dimensional tori
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Mutual exclusiveness among spacelike, timelike, and lightlike leaves in totally geodesic foliations of lightlike complete Lorentzian two-dimensional tori
zbMATH Open document ID: 1019.57013
author: Ken Yokomoto
published in: Hokkaido Mathematical Journal
publication date: 2003-09-21T00:00:00Z
review text: Let \((M,g)\) be a Lorentzian manifold and \(T_xM\) the tangent space at \(x\in M\). A subspace \(E\subset T_xM\) is called spacelike (resp. timelike, lightlike) if the signature of \(g/E\) is \((+,\dots,+)\) (resp. \((+, \dots,+,-)\), \((+,\dots, +,0))\). A submanifold \(L\) of \((M,g)\) is called spacelike (resp. timelike, lightlike) if the tangent space \(T_xL\) is a spacelike (resp. timelike, lightlike) subspace of \(T_xM\) for each \(x\in L\). In this paper the author proves the following Theorem: ``Let \((T^2,g)\) be a lightlike complete Lorentzian 2-torus. There exists no totally geodesic foliation which contains more than or equal to two kinds of leaves among spacelike, timelike, and lightlike ones.'' Corollary: ``Let \((T^2,g)\) be a lightlike complete Lorentzian 2-torus. Let \(F\) be a totally geodesic foliation of \(T^2\). Then \(F\) has no Reeb components.'' In addition this work covers some properties of totally geodesic foliations of Lorentzian manifolds. Some important examples are studied, too.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57R30
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C12
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C50
zbMATH DE Number: 1876753
zbMATH Keywords: pseudo-Riemannian manifolds
zbMATH Keywords: totally geodesic foliation
zbMATH Keywords: Reeb
zbMATH Keywords: Lorentzian manifolds
reviewed by: Costache Apreutesei
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.14492/hokmj/1350911906
OpenAlex ID: W2167857015
DOI: 10.14492/HOKMJ/1350911906
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