Existence of geodesics for the Lorentz metric of a stationary gravitational field

DOI10.1016/S0294-1449(16)30308-0zbMath0697.58011MaRDI QIDQ911113

Vieri Benci, Donato Fortunato

Publication date: 1990

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_1990__7_1_27_0

zbMATH Keywords

geodesics; variational methods; saddle point theorem; Lorentzian metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

83C99: General relativity

49K35: Optimality conditions for minimax problems

58E10: Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable)

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

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