On general plane fronted waves. Geodesics

DOI10.1023/A:1022962017685zbMath1200.58014arXivgr-qc/0211017OpenAlexW1572203540MaRDI QIDQ1874718

Miguel Sánchez, Anna Maria Candela, José Luis Flores

Publication date: 25 May 2003

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0211017

zbMATH Keywords

completenessvariational methodsLjusternik-Schnirelman theorygravitational wavesgeodesic connectednesscausal geodesicsplane fronted waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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