Compact Lorentzian Manifolds Without Closed Nonspacelike Geodesics

DOI10.2307/2045780zbMath0601.53053MaRDI QIDQ3736508

Gregory J. Galloway

Publication date: 1986

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2045780

zbMATH Keywords

closed geodesics; null geodesic; timelike geodesic; Lorentzian 2-manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C22: Geodesics in global differential geometry

53C50: Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics

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