Lorentzian geodesic flows

DOI10.4310/JDG/1214457900MaRDI QIDQ1915931zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jens Chr. Larsen

Publication date 3 February 1997

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1214457900

zbMATH Keywords

isometry groupLorentzian \(C_ Q\) manifoldsrigiditytimelike closed geodesics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25)

Review text

The paper studies the class of \(C_Q\) Lorentzian manifolds \((M, g)\), \(Q\geq 0\), that is \((M, g)\) is time-oriented, future 1-connected, nonspacelike complete, and the sectional curvature of any timelike hyperplane is bounded from above by \(Q^2\). It is proved that the set of timelike closed geodesics is dense in the quotient of the future timelike unit tangent bundle modulo a suitable group of isometries called vicious. Moreover, it is proved a rigidity theorem for two-dimensional \(C_Q\) manifolds. More precisely, it is shown that any orientable, two-dimensional \(C_Q\) manifold, \(Q> 0\), admitting a vicious isometry group, must have constant curvature.

Recommendations

• Closed geodesics in Lorentzian surfaces
• Compact Lorentzian Manifolds Without Closed Nonspacelike Geodesics
• Time-like geodesic flows on Lorentz manifolds
• On class A Lorentzian 2-tori with poles. I: Closed geodesics pass through poles
• Lorentz manifolds with homogeneous space-like sections

Cited in

(12)

• Geodesic flows
• Dynamical properties of the space of Lorentzian metrics
• Complex analysis, maximal immersions and metric singularities
• On class A Lorentzian 2-tori with poles. I: Closed geodesics pass through poles
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5828830 (Why is no real title available?)
• Time-like geodesic flows on Lorentz manifolds
• Bistability theorem in a cancer model
• Geodesics in Lewis space–time
• LORENTZIAN GEOMETRY
• Models of cancer growth
• Isotropic tangency
• Geometric Lorenz flows with historic behavior

This page was built for publication: Lorentzian geodesic flows

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q1915931)