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Fully stratified compact hypersurfaces in Minkowski 4-space

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A compact hypersurface in Minkowski space decomposes as a disjoint union of loci where the induced metric is: definite, degenerate, or indefinite. Here we deduce several global properties of the hypersurface from properties of its degenerate loci.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina, 29208, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.

    Marek Kossowski

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Research partially supported by NSF Grant DMS-88-03585.

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Kossowski, M. Fully stratified compact hypersurfaces in Minkowski 4-space. Geom Dedicata 47, 297–316 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01263662

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