Some characterizations on minimal lightlike submanifolds

Abstract

The present paper deals with the study of minimal lightlike submanifolds. We investigate a class of lightlike submanifolds namely, generic lightlike submanifolds under the minimal condition. We give one nontrivial example for minimal generic lightlike submanifolds and derive some characterization theorems for a generic lightlike submanifold to be a minimal lightlike submanifold. We also establish some conditions for the distributions for generic lightlike submanifolds to be minimal. We further derive the expressions for sectional curvature, null sectional curvature and induced Ricci tensor for a minimal lightlike submanifold. Finally, we prove that for a minimal lightlike submanifold, the null sectional curvature vanishes and the induced Ricci tensor is symmetric.