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Conformal development of a curve in a Riemannian space into a Minkowski space

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The research was supported by the International Science Foundation and the Government of the Russian Federation (Grant JF 3100), the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Grant 96-01-00436), and the Grant Center at St. Petersburg University (Grant 95-0-1.2-43).

Translated fromSibirskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 676–699, May–June, 1996.

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Slavskii, V.V. Conformal development of a curve in a Riemannian space into a Minkowski space. Sib Math J 37, 591–613 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02104861

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