A generalization of the Mariot theorem on congruences of null geodesics

DOI10.1098/RSPA.1986.0039MaRDI QIDQ3715787zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ivor Robinson, Andrzej Trautman

Publication date 1986

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1986.0039

zbMATH Keywords

null geodesicscongruence of curvesflag structuregeodesic property

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15)

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