On light-like extremal surfaces in curved spacetimes

DOI10.1088/0253-6102/61/1/03MaRDI QIDQ5407918zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shoujun Huang, Chun-Lei He

Publication date 8 April 2014

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

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)

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.

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