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Isometric immersions into the Minkowski spacetime for Lorentzian manifolds with limited regularity

  • Philippe G. Lefloch*
  • , Cristinel Mardare
  • , Sorin Mardare
  • *Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Journal Publications and ReviewsRGC 21 - Publication in refereed journalpeer-review

Abstract

Assuming minimal regularity assumptions on the data, we revisit the classical problem of finding isometric immersions into the Minkowski spacetime for hypersurfaces of a Lorentzian manifold. Our approach encompasses metrics having Sobolev regularity and Riemann curvature defined in the distributional sense, only. It applies to timelike, spacelike, or null hypersurfaces with arbitrary signature that possibly changes from point to point.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)341-365
Number of pages25
JournalDiscrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems
Volume23
Issue number1-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2009
Externally publishedYes

Research Keywords

  • General hypersurface
  • Isometric embedding
  • Lorentzian manifold
  • Minkowski spacetime

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