CONVEXITY CONDITIONS ON THE BOUNDARY OF A STATIONARY SPACETIME AND APPLICATIONS

DOI10.1142/S0219199709003545zbMath1183.58007MaRDI QIDQ3648312

Anna Valeria Germinario, Rossella Bartolo

Publication date: 25 November 2009

Published in: Communications in Contemporary Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

geodesicsstationary Lorentzian manifoldsconvexity of the boundaryvariational methods, Kerr spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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