On the distribution of conjugate points along semi-Riemannian geodesics

DOI10.4310/CAG.2003.v11.n1.a3zbMath1077.53059arXivmath/0011038WikidataQ115205498 ScholiaQ115205498MaRDI QIDQ2386763

Paolo Piccione, Daniel V. Tausk

Publication date: 25 August 2005

Published in: Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0011038

zbMATH Keywords

conjugate pointsLorentzian manifoldspace-like geodesic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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)

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