Every timelike geodesic in anti-de Sitter spacetime is a circle of the same radius

DOI10.1142/S0218271816500073MaRDI QIDQ2809394zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Leszek M. Sokołowski, Zdzisław A. Golda

Publication date 30 May 2016

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.07111

zbMATH Keywords

time-like geodesicsanti-de Sitter spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

Abstract: We refine and analytically prove an old proposition due to Calabi and Markus on the shape of timelike geodesics of anti--de Sitter space in the ambient flat space. We prove that each timelike geodesic forms in the ambient space a circle of the radius determined by $Lambda$, lying on a Euclidean two--plane. Then we outline an alternative proof for $Ad{S}_4$. We also make a comment on the shape of timelike geodesics in de Sitter space.

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