Light rays joining two submanifolds in space-times

DOI10.1016/S0393-0440(96)00034-4MaRDI QIDQ1360577zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Anna Maria Candela, Addolorata Salvatore

Publication date 12 February 1998

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0393-0440(96)00034-4

zbMATH Keywords

general relativitylight raysLyusternik-Schnirelman categoryvariational methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) General relativity (83C99)

Review text

In the paper [\textit{D. Fortunato}, \textit{F. Giannoni} and \textit{A. Masiello}, J. Geom. Phys. 15, No. 2, 159-188 (1995; Zbl 0819.53037)], lightlike geodesics joining an event to a vertical line have been studied. In this paper, the number of light rays joining two submanifolds in a stationary Lorentz manifold is estimated by the category of the product of the two manifolds under certain additional conditions.

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