On a morse theory for light rays without nondegeneracy assumptions

DOI10.1016/S0362-546X(97)00034-5zbMATH Open0887.53041MaRDI QIDQ4374906FDOQ4374906

Authors: Anna Valeria Germinario 

Publication date: 5 May 1998

Published in: Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

Lorentzian manifoldsMorse theorydegenerate critical pointlightlike geodesicsgravitational lensing effect

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Fréchet and Gateaux differentiability in optimization (49J50)

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