The Generalised Raychaudhuri Equations : Examples

Abstract

Specific examples of the generalized Raychaudhuri Equations for the evolution of deformations along families of $D$ dimensional surfaces embedded in a background $N$ dimensional spacetime are discussed. These include string worldsheets embedded in four dimensional spacetimes and two dimensional timelike hypersurfaces in a three dimensional curved background. The issue of focussing of families of surfaces is introduced and analysed in some detail.

8 pages (Revtex, Twocolumn format). Corrected(see section on string worldsheets), reorganised and shortened slightly

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