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

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2015.01.003zbMATH Open1323.53036arXiv1406.5139OpenAlexW2149451321WikidataQ115356054 ScholiaQ115356054MaRDI QIDQ490684FDOQ490684

Alexey O. Remizov

Publication date: 27 August 2015

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

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.

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)

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• Geometry of lightlike locus on mixed type surfaces in Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space from a contact viewpoint
• Local properties of geodesics on \(p\)-convex sets
• Mixed type surfaces with bounded Gaussian curvature in three-dimensional Lorentzian manifolds
• Completion of the classification of generic singularities of geodesic flows in two classes of metrics
• Singularities of the geodesic flow on surfaces with pseudo-Riemannian metrics
• Singularities of quasi-linear differential equations
• Pseudolocality for the Ricci Flow and Applications

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