Closed geodesics in stationary manifolds with strictly convex boundary (Q1840917)

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    Closed geodesics in stationary manifolds with strictly convex boundary
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1567208

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      Closed geodesics in stationary manifolds with strictly convex boundary (English)
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      26 June 2002
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      It is known that a Lorentzian manifold with stationary metric admits at least one closed spacelike geodesic if the space section of the manifold is compact [\textit{A. Masiello}, J. Differ. Equations 104, No. 1, 48-59 (1993; Zbl 0808.53058)]. Here, the authors present a variant of that result (which in fact may be considered as an extension). They prove that a stationary Lorentzian manifold equipped with a strictly space-convex boundary admits at least one closed spacelike geodesic. The proof uses variational procedures.
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      Lorentzian manifolds
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      stationary metrics
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      strictly space-convex boundary
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      closed spacelike geodesics
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