Space time manifolds and contact structures

Space time manifolds and contact structures

A new class of contact manifolds (carring a global non-vanishing timelike vector field) is introduced to establish a relation between spacetime manifolds and contact structures. We show that odd dimensional strongly causal (in particular, globally hyperbolic) spacetimes can carry a regular contact s...

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Main Author: K. L. Duggal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 1990-01-01
Series:International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Subjects:
contact manifold
global timelike vector field
spacetime manifold
Lorentzian geometry
submanifold.
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/S0161171290000783

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/S0161171290000783

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