Celestial spheres, light cones, and cuts

DOI10.1063/1.530424zbMATH Open0782.53060OpenAlexW2052260117WikidataQ125941863 ScholiaQ125941863MaRDI QIDQ4697294FDOQ4697294

Robert J. Low

Publication date: 29 June 1993

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.530424

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zbMATH Keywords

null geodesicsCauchy surfacescontact form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

Cites Work

• Domain of Dependence
• The geometry of the space of null geodesics
• The global structure of simple space-times
• Twistor linking and causal relations

Cited In (9)

• Optical drift effects in general relativity
• On the space of null geodesics of a spacetime: the compact case, Engel geometry and retrievability
• Refocusing of light rays in space-time
• A conformal boundary for space-times based on light-like geodesics: The 3-dimensional case
• Gravitational lensing from a spacetime perspective
• The Hawking energy on the past lightcone in cosmology
• Observed angles and geodesic light-cone coordinates
• Twistor linking and causal relations
• Toward a general theory of linking invariants

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