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

DOI10.4171/RMI/926MaRDI QIDQ520706zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rossella Bartolo, Anna Maria Candela, José Luis Flores

Publication date 5 April 2017

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

Cauchy hypersurfacegeneralized plane wavegeodesic connectednessglobal hyperbolicitygravitational waveKilling vector fieldlight-like vector fieldstationary spacetime

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)

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.

Review text

In the paper under review, the authors give a characterization of the points which can be connected by geodesics by taking a globally hyperbolic spacetime endowed with a complete light-like Killing vector field and a complete Cauchy hypersurface. An important consequence is the geodesic connectedness of globally hyperbolic generalized plane waves with a complete Cauchy hypersurface.

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