TWISTED PRODUCTS IN PSEUDO-RIEMANNIAN GEOMETRY

被引:192
作者
PONGE, R [1 ]
RECKZIEGEL, H [1 ]
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[1] UNIV COLOGNE,INST MATH,W-5000 COLOGNE 41,GERMANY
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10.1007/BF01265674
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O1 [数学];
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0701 ; 070101 ;
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Twisted products are generalizations of warped products, namely the warping function may depend on the points of both factors. The two canonical foliations of a twisted product are mutually perpendicular and their leaves are totally geodesic, resp. totally umbilic. The main result is a decomposition theorem of de Rham type; If on a simply connected, geodesically complete pseudo-Riemannian manifold M two foliations with the above properties are given, then M is a twisted product.
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