A Fermat principle on Lorentzian manifolds and applications
Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) 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) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10)
The authors present a variational principle for lightlike geodesics joining a point to a timelike curve in a Lorentzian manifold. For the techniques used it is essential that the Lorentzian manifold is assumed to admit a global time function, i.e., to be stably causal. If a certain precompactness condition is satisfied, standard results of Lyusternik-Schnirelman theory imply existence and multiplicity results for such lightlike geodesics. Proofs of the statements are only sketched and a more detailed paper is announced to appear elswhere.
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