Light rays having extreme points with the same spatial coordinates

DOI10.1016/S0926-2245(99)00008-XMaRDI QIDQ1295486zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Flavia Antonacci, Rosella Sampalmieri, Anna Valeria Germinario

Publication date 24 June 1999

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0926-2245(99)00008-x

zbMATH Keywords

calculus of variationsLorentzian manifoldslightlike geodesics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10) Projective connections (53B10)

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