t-periodic light rays in conformally stationary spacetimes via Finsler geometry

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Authors L. Biliotti, Miguel Angel Javaloyes

Publication date 11 April 2011

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0803.0488, http://www.math.uh.edu/~hjm/Vol37-1.html

zbMATH Keywords

geodesicsFinsler metricslight raysstationary Lorentzian manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B20)

Abstract: In this paper we prove several multiplicity results of $t$-periodic light rays in conformally stationary spacetimes using the Fermat metric and the extensions of the classical theorems of Gromoll-Meyer and Bangert-Hingston to Finsler manifolds. Moreover, we exhibit some stationary spacetimes with a finite number of $t$-periodic light rays and compute a lower bound for the period of the light rays when the flag curvature of the Fermat metric is $eta$-pinched.

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