On the interplay between Lorentzian causality and Finsler metrics of Randers type

DOI10.4171/RMI/658zbMath1229.53070arXiv0903.3501MaRDI QIDQ643332

Erasmo Caponio, Miguel Ángel Javaloyes, Miguel Sánchez

Publication date: 28 October 2011

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.3501

zbMATH Keywords

geodesics; stationary space-times; Cauchy horizons; causality in Lorentzian manifolds; Finsler and Randers metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C22: Geodesics in global differential geometry

53C50: Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics

53C60: Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics)

53B30: Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics

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