we study connected orientable spacelike hypersurfaces $x:m^{n}rightarrowm_q^{n+1}(c)$, isometrically immersed into the riemannian or lorentzian space form of curvature $c=-1,0,1$, and index $q=0,1$, satisfying the condition $~l_kx=ax+b$,~ where $l_k$ is the $textit{linearized operator}$ of the $(k+1)$-th mean curvature $h_{k+1}$ of the hypersurface for a fixed integer $0leq k

We investigate the twistor space and the Grassmannian fibre bundle of a Lorentzian 4-space with natural almost optical structures and its induced CR-structures. The twistor spaces of the Lorentzian space forms R 4 1, S 4 1 and H 4 1 are explicitly discussed. The given twistor construction is applied to surface theory in Lorentzian 4-spaces. Immersed spacelike surfaces in a Lorentzian 4-space wi...

In this paper we introduce a reference along a null curve in an n-dimensional Lorentzian space with the minimun number of curvatures. That reference generalizes the reference of Bonnor for null curves in Minkowski space-time and it is called the Cartan frame of the curve. The associated curvature functions are called the Cartan curvatures of the curve. We characterize the null helices (that is,...