Connectivity by geodesics on globally hyperbolic spacetimes with a lightlike Killing vector field

DOI10.4171/RMI/926zbMATH Open1370.53048arXiv1405.0804OpenAlexW2964298717MaRDI QIDQ520706FDOQ520706

Anna Maria Candela, Rossella Bartolo, José Luis Flores

Publication date: 5 April 2017

Published in: Revista Matemática Iberoamericana (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Given a globally hyperbolic spacetime endowed with a complete lightlike Killing vector field and a complete Cauchy hypersurface, we characterize the points which can be connected by geodesics. A straightforward consequence is the geodesic connectedness of globally hyperbolic generalized plane waves with a complete Cauchy hypersurface.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.0804

zbMATH Keywords

Killing vector fieldstationary spacetimeCauchy hypersurfaceglobal hyperbolicitygravitational wavegeneralized plane wavegeodesic connectednesslight-like vector field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

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