The $SO(3,1)$-orbits in the light cone of the 2-fold exterior power of the Minkowski 4-space

Abstract

Two special neutral hypersurfaces $\mathcal{L}_{\pm}$ in the light cone $L(\bigwedge^2 E^4_1 )$ studied in [1], [3] are $SO(3,1)$-orbits. In this paper, we see that each $SO(3,1)$-orbit in $L(\bigwedge^2 E^4_1 )$ is either a neutral hypersurface homothetic to one of $\mathcal{L}_{\pm}$ in $L(\bigwedge^2 E^4_1 )$ or a hypersurface with a two-dimensional involutive distribution where the induced metric is degenerate. The difference between these hypersurfaces can be understood in terms of the stabilizer and the $r$-slice of $L(\bigwedge^2 E^4_1 )$ for $r>0$.