On the structure of space-time caustics

DOI10.1007/BF01213213zbMATH Open0557.53036MaRDI QIDQ762476FDOQ762476

Authors: K. Rosquist 

Publication date: 1983

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

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zbMATH Keywords

causticLorentz spacenull geodesicsconjugate locustimelike geodesics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

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