The optical-mechanical analogy in general relativity: Exact Newtonian forms for the equations of motion of particles and photons

DOI10.1007/BF02105085zbMath0851.53061OpenAlexW1964194532MaRDI QIDQ1915096

Yanyan Li

Publication date: 22 August 1996

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02105085

zbMATH Keywords

variational principleFermat's principleReissner-Nordström spacetimemotion of light rays and particles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10)

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