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)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0926-2245(97)00020-X

zbMATH Keywords

convex setslight raysLorentzian manifoldsSchwarzschild spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Review text

The authors show the existence of one spatially closed geodesic on a regular, conformally stationary Lorentzian manifold \({\mathcal M}\) having a non-contractible, light-convex, timelike cylinder. The result is obtained by using an extension of the classical Fermat principle in optics and a shortening argument for light rays, similar to the shortening method for geodesics in Riemannian manifolds. The paper closes with an appendix containing some results on the existence and regularity of minimum points for action integrals whose Lagrangian satisfies a quasi-Finsler condition.

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