• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.641-648
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• 2000

The purpose of this paper is to give a necessary and sufficient condition for a smooth manifold to admit a Lorentzian metric. As an application of this result, on Lorentzian manifolds we have shown that the existence of a 1-dimensional distribution is equivalent to the existence of a non-vanishing vector field.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.951-962
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• 2003

In this paper we address focal points and treat manifolds (M, g) whose Lorentzian metric tensors g have a spacelike $C^{0}$-hypersurface $\Sigma$ [10]. We apply Jacobi fields for such manifolds, and check the local length maximizing properties of $C^1$-geodesics. The condition of maximality of timelike curves(geodesics) passing $C^{0}$-hypersurface is studied.ied.