On a Fermat principle in general relativity. A Morse theory for light rays

DOI10.1007/BF02104754zbMATH Open0855.53039MaRDI QIDQ1921891FDOQ1921891

Authors: Fabio Giannoni, Antonio Masiello 

Publication date: 3 September 1996

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

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zbMATH Keywords

global hyperbolicityFermat's principlegravitational lens effectMorse theory for lightlike geodesics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Variational principles of physics (49S05) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50)

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