Geodesic connectedness of semi-Riemannian manifolds.

DOI10.1016/S0362-546X(01)00427-8MaRDI QIDQ1875333zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Miguel Sánchez

Publication date 26 August 2004

Published in Nonlinear Analysis. Theory, Methods \& Applications. Series A: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0005039

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)

Abstract: The question whether a Riemannian manifold is geodesically connected can be studied from geometrical as well as variational methods, and accurate results can be obtained by using the associated distance and related properties of the positive-definiteness. It is natural to state this problem in manifolds with (possibly non-smooth) boundary, and some conditions on this boundary has been studied. For Lorentzian manifolds, the results cannot be so general, and very different techniques has been introduced which are satisfactory for some classes of Lorentzian manifolds: spaceforms, disprisoning and pseudoconvex manifolds, stationary, globally hyperbolic or multiwarped spacetimes... Some of them are appliable to semi-Riemannian manifolds with higher index or even to manifolds with just an affine connection. Our purpose is to review these semi-Riemannian techniques, discussing the results and possible extensions.

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