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

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

Donato Fortunato, Vieri Benci

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

geodesicsvariational methodssaddle point theoremLorentzian metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General relativity (83C99) Optimality conditions for minimax problems (49K35) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30)

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