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LIGHTLIKE HYPERSURFACES WITH TOTALLY UMBILICAL SCREEN DISTRIBUTIONS

  • Jin, Dae-Ho (Department of Mathematics Dongguk University)
  • Received : 2009.05.25
  • Accepted : 2009.08.14
  • Published : 2009.09.30
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Abstract

In this paper, we study the geometry of lightlike hypersurfaces of a semi-Riemannian manifold. We prove a classification theorem for lightlike hypersurfaces M with totally umbilical screen distributions of a semi-Riemannian space form.

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