scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1467440

MaRDI QIDQ4486827zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Donato Fortunato, Antonio Masiello

Publication date 29 June 2000

zbMATH Keywords

Fermat principlegeneral relativitylight raysLorentzian manifoldMorse theorynull geodesicsvariational principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15)

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