On conjugate and focal points in semi-Riemannian geometry

DOI10.1007/BF01162874MaRDI QIDQ1111175zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Demir N. Kupeli

Publication date 1988

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/173944

zbMATH Keywords

comparison theoremsconjugate pointgeodesicsemi-Riemannian manifoldsfocal pointsRaychaudhuri equationMyer's theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

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