Compact Lorentzian Manifolds Without Closed Nonspacelike Geodesics

DOI10.2307/2045780zbMath0601.53053OpenAlexW4252657201MaRDI QIDQ3736508

Gregory J. Galloway

Publication date: 1986

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

zbMATH Keywords

closed geodesicsnull geodesictimelike geodesicLorentzian 2-manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

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