Lorentzian geometry of CR submanifolds
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Lorentzian geometry of CR submanifolds
zbMATH Open document ID: 0692.53025
DOI: 10.1007/BF00046823
author: Krishan Lal Duggal
published in: Acta Applicandae Mathematicae
publication date: 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: A. Bejancu defined CR submanifolds of differentiable manifolds with a (positive definite) Riemannian metric and almost Hermitian structure as a generalization of holomorphic submanifolds and totally real submanifolds. In this article, the notion of CR submanifold is extended to orientable Lorentz submanifolds of semi-Riemannian manifolds with an almost Hermitian structure. By a Lorentz submanifold we mean an n-dimensional submanifold embedded in an \((n+p)\)-dimensional semi-Riemannian manifold equipped with an indefinite metric, where the induced metric on the submanifold has Lorentzian signature (1,n-1). Definitions and theorems needed to extend the theory of CR submanifolds, contact CR submanifolds, and framed f-structures to the Lorentzian case are given. Many proofs are omitted as they are straight-forward generalizations but details of new results are presented. The primary new contribution is the study of CR submanifolds with a distribution D which is everywhere light- like, i.e. the metric restricted to D is degenerate. Several examples are presented and a discussion of how these notions relate to general relativity are included. For example, a four dimensional Lorentz CR manifold with a light-like distribution is related to the class of spacetimes representing null electromagnetic fields with the energy momentum tensor of a pure radiation field. Finally, a research problem to find the relation between Lorentzian geometry and pseudo conformal geometry is proposed.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C50
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C55
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C80
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 83C50
zbMATH DE Number: 4133051
zbMATH Keywords: CR submanifolds
zbMATH Keywords: contact CR submanifolds
zbMATH Keywords: framed f-structures
zbMATH Keywords: null electromagnetic fields
zbMATH Keywords: pure radiation field
zbMATH Keywords: Lorentzian geometry
zbMATH Keywords: pseudo conformal geometry
reviewed by: Dean E. Allison
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00046823
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4133051