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In this chapter we present applications of lightlike geometry in the study of null 2-surfaces in spacetimes, lightlike versions of harmonic maps and morphisms, CRstructures in general relativity and lightlike contact geometry in physics.
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(2010). Applications of lightlike geometry. In: Differential Geometry of Lightlike Submanifolds. Frontiers in Mathematics. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0346-0251-8_9
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