On causality and closed geodesics of compact Lorentzian manifolds and static spacetimes

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2005.06.008zbMath1111.53055arXivmath/0502322OpenAlexW2171584764WikidataQ115357934 ScholiaQ115357934MaRDI QIDQ2491898

Miguel Sánchez

Publication date: 29 May 2006

Published in: Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0502322

zbMATH Keywords

causalityclosed geodesicLorentzian manifoldsgeodesic connectednesstotally viciousstatic and stationary spacetimestime-like geodesic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

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