期刊名称：International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0161-1712
电子版ISSN：1687-0425
出版年度：1990
卷号：13
DOI：10.1155/S0161171290000783
出版社：Hindawi Publishing Corporation
摘要：A new class of contact manifolds (carring a global non-vanishing timelike vector field) is introduced to establish a relation between spacetime manifolds and contact structures. We show that odd dimensional strongly causal (in particular, globally hyperbolic) spacetimes can carry a regular contact structure. As examples, we present a causal spacetime with a non regular contact structure and a physical model [Gödel Universe] of Homogeneous contact manifold. Finally, we construct a model of 4-dimensional spacetime of general relativity as a contact CR-submanifold.
