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Commun. Korean Math. Soc. 2015; 30(2): 109-121

Printed April 30, 2015

https://doi.org/10.4134/CKMS.2015.30.2.109

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On horizontal lightlike hypersurfaces of Robertson-Walker spacetimes

Ximin Liu and Quanxiang Pan

Dalian University of Technology, Dalian University of Technology

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate horizontal lightlike hypersurfaces of Robertson-Walker spacetimes. Some results involving the unique existence of the screen distribution and the symmetry of the induced Ricci curvature tensor of horizontal lightlike hypersurfaces are presented. We also obtain some properties concerning the symmetry and the parallelism of the second fundamental forms of such lightlike hypersurfaces.

Keywords: lightlike hypersurface, Robertson-Walker spacetime, symmetry, parallelism, induced Ricci curvature tensor

MSC numbers: 53B30, 53C15, 53C40, 53C50