A timelike extension of Fermat's principle in general relativity and applications
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Publication:1384669
DOI10.1007/s005260050091zbMath0912.58009arXivmath-ph/9906023MaRDI QIDQ1384669
Paolo Piccione, Antonio Masiello, Fabio Giannoni
Publication date: 5 May 1999
Published in: Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations, Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/9906023
83C99: General relativity
53C22: Geodesics in global differential geometry
58E50: Applications of variational problems in infinite-dimensional spaces to the sciences
83C10: Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory
58E10: Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable)
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