On the interplay between Lorentzian causality and Finsler metrics of Randers type

DOI10.4171/RMI/658zbMath1229.53070arXiv0903.3501OpenAlexW3102687339MaRDI QIDQ643332

Erasmo Caponio, Miguel Ángel Javaloyes, Miguel Sánchez

Publication date: 28 October 2011

Published in: Revista Matemática Iberoamericana (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.3501

zbMATH Keywords

geodesicsstationary space-timesCauchy horizonscausality in Lorentzian manifoldsFinsler and Randers metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30)

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