Journal of Function Spaces (Jan 2015)
Singularities of Null Hypersurfaces of Pseudonull Curves
Abstract
The main goal of this paper is to study the singularities of null hypersurfaces of pseudonull curves. To do this we construct a null frame and a Lorentz distance-squared function of the pseudonull curve. The relations are shown between singularities of the null hypersurfaces and those, of the Lorentz distance-squared function. And we reveal the geometric meanings of the singularities of such hypersurfaces. In addition, we also introduce some properties of the nullcone Gaussian surface of the pseudonull curve.