On the existence of multiple geodesics in static space-times (Q753161): Difference between revisions

The authors study geodesics in a static Lorentz-manifold (\({\mathfrak M},g)=({\mathfrak M}_ 0\times {\mathbb{R}},<.,.>\oplus (-\beta)\cdot dt^ 2)\) such that (\({\mathfrak M}_ 0,<.,.>)\) is complete and \(\beta\) is bounded and bounded away from 0. They show that (M,g) is geodesically connected and estimate the number of timelike geodesics (resp. all geodesics) which connect two given points. They derive similar results for the ``T- periodic'' case, in which geodesics of the form \(\gamma =(x,t)\), \(x(0)=x(T)\), \(t(0)=0\), \(t(1)=T\), \(x'(0)=x'(1)\), \(t'(0)=t'(1)\) are considered. In particular, they derive that for each \(m\in {\mathbb{N}}\) and each \(Q\in {\mathfrak M}_ 0\) there exist m different T-periodic timelike geodesics passing through (Q,0) and (Q,T), provided T is large enough and (\({\mathfrak M},g)\) is asymptotically flat in a certain sense.