Global hyperbolicity and Palais-Smale condition for action functionals in stationary spacetimes

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2008.01.004zbMATH Open1142.53051arXivmath/0610175OpenAlexW2073253022MaRDI QIDQ2483178FDOQ2483178

Authors: Miguel Sánchez, Anna Maria Candela, José Luis Flores 

Publication date: 28 April 2008

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In order to apply variational methods to the action functional for geodesics of a stationary spacetime, some hypotheses, useful to obtain classical Palais-Smale condition, are commonly used: pseudo-coercivity, bounds on certain coefficients of the metric, etc. We prove that these technical assumptions admit a natural interpretation for the conformal structure (causality) of the manifold. As a consequence, any stationary spacetime with a complete timelike Killing vector field and a complete Cauchy hypersurface (thus, globally hyperbolic), is proved to be geodesically connected.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0610175

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zbMATH Keywords

coercivityPalais-Smale conditionglobal hyperbolicityintrinsic approachstationary space-timegeodesic connectednesscompleteness.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

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