On a Fermat principle in general relativity. A Ljusternik-Schnirelmann theory for light rays

DOI10.1007/BF01759371zbMath0983.58008MaRDI QIDQ1568764

Fabio Giannoni, Antonio Masiello

Publication date: 23 April 2002

Published in: Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata. Serie Quarta (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Palais-Smale conditiongravitational lenseLorentzian manifoldsarrival timelightlike geodesics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10) Variational principles of physics (49S05)

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