Homologically maximizing geodesics in conformally flat tori

zbMATH Open1231.53061arXiv1003.2322MaRDI QIDQ3171669FDOQ3171669

Stefan Suhr

Publication date: 5 October 2011

Abstract: We study homologically maximizing timelike geodesics in conformally flat tori. A causal geodesic $gamma$ in such a torus is said to be homologically maximizing if one (hence every) lift of $gamma$ to the universal cover is arclength maximizing. First we prove a compactness result for homologically maximizing timelike geodesics. This yields the Lipschitz continuity of the time separation of the universal cover on strict sub-cones of the cone of future pointing vectors. Then we introduce the stable time separation $mathfrakl$. As an application we prove relations between the concavity properties of $mathfrakl$ and the qualitative behavior of homologically maximizing geodesics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.2322

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zbMATH Keywords

rotation vectorconformally flat torihomologically maximizing time-like geodesicsstable time separation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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