A note on the boundary of a static Lorentzian manifold. (Q1608963)
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A note on the boundary of a static Lorentzian manifold. (English)
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14 August 2002
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The authors generalize the notion of convexity from the Euclidean signature to Lorentzian signature. To this end they use geodesics, and define a set to be convex iff with each two of its points, if they can be joined by a geodesic arc, this arc also lies within this set. They give several characterizations for convexity, and use a variational principle for the proofs.
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static Lorentzian manifold
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geodesic
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convexity
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