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Manifolds with a non-degenerate symmetric bilinear form in each tangent space varying differentiably but with constant index and signature.

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Are all orbits semi-Riemannian submanifolds?

No! Consider the adjoint action of $SL(2,\mathbb R)$ on its Lie algebra with the Killing form, which is $\mathbb R^{1,2}$. The orbits are: Non-closed: future light cone, past light cone. 0 is in th …
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Why are they called "screen" distributions?

Naturally, one should consider the quotient space $V/{\rm rad}(V)$ which consists of ${\rm rad}(V)$-rays (affine spaces parallel to ${\rm rad}(V)$). A screen space $SV$ intersects a ray in exactly one …
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