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

DOI10.1007/BF02105085zbMath0851.53061MaRDI QIDQ1915096

Yanyan Li

Publication date: 22 August 1996

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

zbMATH Keywords

variational principle; Fermat's principle; Reissner-Nordström spacetime; motion of light rays and particles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53Z05: Applications of differential geometry to physics

83C10: Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory

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