Rigidity of pseudo-isotropic immersions

Several notions of isotropy of a (pseudo)Riemannian manifold have been introduced in the literature, in particular, the concept of pseudo-isotropic immersion. The aim of this paper is to look more closely at this notion of pseudoisotropy and then to study the rigidity of this class of immersion into...

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Autores: Cabrerizo Jaraíz, José Luis, Fernández Andrés, Manuel, Gómez Casanueva, Juan Salvador
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/47729
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11441/47729
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomphys.2009.03.006
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Pseudo-Riemannian manifold
Isotropic immersion
Pseudoisotropic submanifold
Rigid immersion
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Sumario:Several notions of isotropy of a (pseudo)Riemannian manifold have been introduced in the literature, in particular, the concept of pseudo-isotropic immersion. The aim of this paper is to look more closely at this notion of pseudoisotropy and then to study the rigidity of this class of immersion into the pseudo-Euclidean space. It is worth pointing out that we first obtain a characterization of the pseudo-isotropy condition by using tangent vectors of any causal character. Then, rigidity theorems for pseudo-isotropic immersions are proved, and in particular, some well known results for the Riemannian case arise. Later, we bring together the notions of pseudo-isotropy, intrinsically and extrinsically isotropic manifolds, and prove interesting relations among them. Finally, we pay special attention to the case of codimension two Lorentz surfaces.