Shortening null geodesics in Lorentzian manifolds. Applications to closed light rays

DOI10.1016/S0926-2245(97)00020-XMaRDI QIDQ1385071zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Antonio Masiello, Paolo Piccione

Publication date 29 July 1998

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

zbMATH Keywords

Lorentzian manifoldsconvex setsSchwarzschild spacetimelight rays

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

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