An intrinsic Fermat principle on stationary Lorentzian manifolds and applications.

DOI10.1016/S0926-2245(02)00069-4MaRDI QIDQ1608975zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Erasmo Caponio

Publication date 14 August 2002

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0926-2245(02)00069-4

zbMATH Keywords

critical point theoryLorentzian manifoldKilling fieldFermat principlelight rays

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

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