Morse theory of causal geodesics in a stationary spacetime via Morse theory of geodesics of a Finsler metric

DOI10.1016/J.ANIHPC.2010.01.001zbMATH Open1196.58005arXiv0903.3519OpenAlexW1996895845MaRDI QIDQ975293FDOQ975293

Miguel Angel Javaloyes, Antonio Masiello, Erasmo Caponio

Publication date: 9 June 2010

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

Abstract: We show that the index of a lightlike geodesic in a conformally standard stationary spacetime is equal to the index of its spatial projection as a geodesic of a Finsler metric associated to the spacetime. Moreover we obtain the Morse relations of lightlike geodesics connecting a point to an integral line of the standard timelike Killing vector field by using Morse theory on the associated Finsler manifold. To this end, we prove a splitting lemma for the energy functional of a Finsler metric. Finally, we show that the reduction to Morse theory of a Finsler manifold can be done also for timelike geodesics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.3519

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zbMATH Keywords

Finsler metricMorse theoryconjugate pointsstationary Lorentzian manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05)

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