On the local and global properties of geodesics in pseudo-Riemannian metrics

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2015.01.003MaRDI QIDQ490684zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alexey O. Remizov

Publication date 27 August 2015

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.5139

zbMATH Keywords

geodesicsimplicit differential equationssingular pointspseudo-Riemannian metricsenvelops

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological structure of integral curves, singular points, limit cycles of ordinary differential equations (34C05) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

Abstract: The paper is a study of geodesic in two-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian metrics. Firstly, the local properties of geodesics in a neighborhood of generic parabolic points are investigated. The equation of the geodesic flow has singularities at such points that leads to a curious phenomenon: geodesics cannot pass through such a point in arbitrary tangential directions, but only in certain directions said to be admissible (the number of admissible directions is generically 1 or 3). Secondly, we study the global properties of geodesics in pseudo-Riemannian metrics possessing differentiable groups of symmetries. At the end of the paper, two special types of discontinuous metrics are considered.

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