Nonisolated spacelike focal and conjugate points in Lorentzian geometry

DOI10.1063/1.3266873MaRDI QIDQ3583763zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paul E. Ehrlich, Jong Ryul Kim, seon-bu Kim

Publication date 17 August 2010

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3266873

zbMATH Keywords

Lorentzian geometrydegenerate focal and conjugate pointsnonisolated conjugate pointsnonisolated focal points

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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