Lightlike Hypersurfaces of Semi-Euclidean Spaces Satisfying Curvature Conditions of Semisymmetry Type

Authors: BAYRAM ŞAHİN

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

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