A timelike extension of fermat's principle in general relativity. Comparisons with the lightlike case

DOI10.1016/S0362-546X(96)00251-9MaRDI QIDQ4374907zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Fabio Giannoni

Publication date 19 April 1998

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

zbMATH Keywords

Palais-Smale conditiongeodesicsFermat's principleLevi-Civita connectionLorentzian geometrylight rays

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) 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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