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Zap. Nauchn. Sem. POMI, 2001 Volume 280, Pages 163–172 (Mi znsl1475)

Classification of totally geodesic surfaces in the manifold of directions in physical space

D. V. Ivanov, S. E. Kozlov

Saint-Petersburg State University

Abstract: The Grassmannian of bevectors over the pseudo-Euclidean Mincowski space is considered and its two-dimensional totally geodesic submanifolds are classified. The family of such surfaces is described in the language of the affine geometry of three-space.

UDC: 514.7+271.21.21.17

Received: 05.07.2001


 English version:
Journal of Mathematical Sciences (New York), 2004, 119:2, 215–220

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