On the existence of multiple geodesics in static space-times

DOI10.1016/S0294-1449(16)30278-5zbMath0716.53057MaRDI QIDQ753161

Vieri Benci, Donato Fortunato, Fabio Giannoni

Publication date: 1991

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Analyse Non Linéaire (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.numdam.org/item?id=AIHPC_1991__8_1_79_0

zbMATH Keywords

geodesics critical point theory Lorentz metrics static space-time asymptotically flat spacetimes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

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