Conformally standard stationary space times and Fermat metrics

DOI10.1007/978-1-4614-4897-6_9MaRDI QIDQ2861901zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Miguel Angel Javaloyes

Publication date 11 November 2013

Published in Recent Trends in Lorentzian Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.1841

zbMATH Keywords

Finsler spaceRanders metricFermat principleIngarden spaceFermat metricconformally stationary space-time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Local differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53B40) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40)

Abstract: In this review, we collect several results for conformally standard stationary spacetimes (SxR,g) obtained in terms of a Finsler metric of Randers type on the orbit manifold S that we call Fermat metric. This metric is obtained by applying the relativistic Fermat principle and it turns out that it encodes all the causal aspects of the spacetime.

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