Vol. 70, No. 2, 1977

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Curvature functions on Lorentz 2-manifolds

John Thomas Burns

Vol. 70 (1977), No. 2, 325–335
Abstract

0. Introduction. This paper deals with the problem of describing those functions which can arise as Gaussian curvatures on 2-dimensional Lorentz manifolds, specifically, the 2-dimensional torus T2 and the plane R2. It is well known that the only compact connected oriented 2-dimensional manifold which admits a Lorentz metric is the torus T2, so restricting attention to T2 represents no loss in generality.

Mathematical Subject Classification 2000
Primary: 53C50
Secondary: 35L60, 58G99
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Received: 8 December 1976
Published: 1 June 1977
Authors
John Thomas Burns