Turkish Journal of Mathematics
DOI
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Abstract
In this paper, we investigate lightlike hypersurfaces which are semi-symmetric, Ricci semi-symmetric, parallel or semi-parallel in a semi-Euclidean space. We obtain that every screen conformal lightlike hypersurface of the Minkowski spacetime is semi-symmetric. For higher dimensions, we show that the semi-symmetry condition of a screen conformal lightlike hypersurface reduces to the semi-symmetry condition of a leaf of its screen distribution. We also obtain that semi-symmetric and Ricci semi-symmetric lightlike hypersurfaces are totally geodesic under certain conditions. Moreover, we show that there exist no non-totally geodesic parallel hypersurfaces in a Lorentzian space.
Keywords
Degenerate metric, Screen conformal lightlike hypersurface, Parallel lightlike hypersurface, Semi-symmetric lightlike hypersurface
First Page
139
Last Page
162
Recommended Citation
ŞAHİN, BAYRAM (2007) "Lightlike Hypersurfaces of Semi-Euclidean Spaces Satisfying Curvature Conditions of Semisymmetry Type," Turkish Journal of Mathematics: Vol. 31: No. 2, Article 3. Available at: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/math/vol31/iss2/3
