A variational theory for light rays in stably causal Lorentzian manifolds: regularity and multiplicity results

DOI10.1007/S002200050141zbMath0884.53048OpenAlexW2021590248WikidataQ56866668 ScholiaQ56866668MaRDI QIDQ1366999

Paolo Piccione, Fabio Giannoni, Antonio Masiello

Publication date: 6 November 1997

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002200050141

zbMATH Keywords

observer time function approximation procedures lightlike geodesics light source Ljusternik-Schnirelman theory of light rays stably causal manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Variational principles of physics (49S05)

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