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Understanding singularities in Cartan's and NSF geometric structures

Diego M. Forni, Mirta S. Iriondo, Carlos N. Kozameh, M. F. Parisi

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/0102106

Abstract

In this work we establish a relationship between Cartan's geometric approach to third order ODEs and the 3-dim Null Surface Formulation (NSF). We then generalize both constructions to allow for caustics and singularities that necessarily arise in these formalisms.

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