Geodesic foliations in Lorentz 3-manifolds

Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-21

  Zeghib, Abdelghani ^a  

^a UNITÉ DE MATHÉMATIQUES PURES ET APPLIQUÉES   (France)

Author keywords

Geodesic; Lightlike; Normal foliation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039657087     PISSN: 00102571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000140050073     Document Type: Article

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