Stable singularities of wave-fronts in general relativity

DOI10.1063/1.532257MaRDI QIDQ4260477zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Robert J. Low

Publication date 8 December 2002

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0108012

zbMATH Keywords

null geodesicsstable singularities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Stability theory for manifolds (58K25) Geometric optics (78A05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10)

Abstract: A wave-front in a space-time $calM$ is a family of null geodesics orthogonal to a smooth spacelike two-surface in $calM$; it is of some interest to know how a wave-front can fail to be a smoothly immersed surface in $calM$. In this paper we see that the space of null geodesics $calN$ of $calM$, considered as a contact manifold, provides a natural setting for an efficient study of the stable singularities arising in the time evolution of wave-fronts.

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