On Light-Like Extremal Surfaces in Curved Spacetimes

DOI10.1088/0253-6102/61/1/03zbMATH Open1284.35432arXiv1305.0901OpenAlexW2082820776MaRDI QIDQ5407918FDOQ5407918

Chun-Lei He, Shoujun Huang

Publication date: 8 April 2014

Published in: Communications in Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we are concerned with light-like extremal surfaces in curved spacetimes. It is interesting to find that under a diffeomorphic transformation of variables, the light-like extremal surfaces can be described by a system of nonlinear geodesic equations. Particularly, we investigate the light-like extremal surfaces in Schwarzschild spacetime in detail and some new special solutions are derived systematically with aim to comparing with the known results and illustrating the method.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.0901

zbMATH Keywords

geodesic equationsSchwarzschild spacetimecurved spacetimeslight-like extremal surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Initial value problems for nonlinear higher-order PDEs (35G25) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75)

Cited In (1)

• Global weak and smooth solutions of the equation for timelike extremal surface in Minkowski space

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