Geodesic deviation and Minkowski space

DOI10.1007/BF00757812MaRDI QIDQ749877zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Daniel E. Barraco, Carlos N. Kozameh, Ezra T. Newman, K. P. Tod

Publication date 1990

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00757812

zbMATH Keywords

conformal metricgeodesic deviationMinkowski space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20)

Review text

The authors show how given any one complex solution of the geodesic deviation equation for null geodesics in four dimensional space-times it is possible to write the general solution of the deviation equations as quadratures over the given solution. They then show that the solution space of the optical equations defines a three-dimensional manifold which naturally possesses a Lorentzian conformal metric. Finally they consider various ramifications of their results including an abstract formulation of the conformal three-space.

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