screen conformal half-lightlike submanifolds屏幕正形half-lightlike子流形.pdf

IJMMS 2004:68, 3737–3753 PII. S0161171204403342 © Hindawi Publishing Corp. SCREEN CONFORMAL HALF-LIGHTLIKE SUBMANIFOLDS K. L. DUGGAL and B. SAHIN Received 18 March 2004 We study some properties of a half-lightlike submanifold M , of a semi-Riemannian manifold, whose shape operator is conformal to the shape operator of its screen distribution. We show that any screen distribution S(T M) of M is integrable and the geometry of M has a close relation with the nondegenerate geometry of a leaf of S(T M). We prove some results on symmetric induced Ricci tensor and null sectional curvature of this class. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 53C20, 53C50. 1. Introduction. The Riemannian geometry of submanifolds [3] is one of the most important topics of differential geometry. It is well known that semi-Riemannian sub- manifolds [9] have many similarities with their Riemannian case. However, the lightlike submanifolds [6] are different since (contrary to the nondegen- erate cases) their normal vector bundle intersects with the tangent bundle. Thus, one cannot use, in the usual way, the classical submanifold theory to define any induced object on a lightlike submanifold. To deal with this anomaly, the lightlike submanifolds were introduced and presented in a book by Duggal and Bejancu [6]. They introduced a nondegenerate screen distribution to construct a nonintersecting lightlike transver- sal vector bundle of the tangent bundle. Since then, a suitable choice of an integrable screen distribution has produced several new results on lightlike geometry (see, e.g, [1, 4, 5, 7] and many more references therein). Also, see [8] for a different approach to deal with lightlike (degenerate) submanifolds. However, unfortunately, there are only two papers [5, 7] (after the publication of Duggal-Bejancu’s book