Morse theory for the travel time brachistochrones in stationary spacetimes

DOI10.3934/dcds.2002.8.697zbMath1003.58008arXivmath-ph/9905007MaRDI QIDQ1599887

Fabio Giannoni, Paolo Piccione, Daniel V. Tausk

Publication date: 2 February 2003

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/9905007

zbMATH Keywords

Morse theory; variational principle; Lorentz manifold; brachistochrones problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

58E05: Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces

83C99: General relativity

53C22: Geodesics in global differential geometry

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