Refocusing of light rays in space-time

DOI10.1063/1.3592603zbMATH Open1317.83040arXiv1005.2591OpenAlexW2033875433WikidataQ126188908 ScholiaQ126188908MaRDI QIDQ5265997FDOQ5265997

Authors: Paul Kinlaw 

Publication date: 29 July 2015

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

Abstract: We investigate refocusing and strong refocusing of light rays in a space-time. A strongly refocusing space-time is refocusing. The converse is unknown. We construct examples of space-times which are refocusing, but not strongly so, at a particular point. These space-times are strongly refocusing at other points. The geometrization conjecture proved by Perelman implies that a globally hyperbolic refocusing space-time of dimension $leq4$ admits a strongly refocusing Lorentz metric. We show that the possibly empty set of points at which a strongly causal space-time is refocusing is closed. We prove that a Lorentz covering space of a strongly causal refocusing space-time is a strongly causal refocusing space-time. This generalizes the result of Chernov and Rudyak for globally hyperbolic space-times.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2591

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zbMATH Keywords

gravitational lensinggravitational refocusing points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Geometric optics (78A05)

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