The geometry of the space of null geodesics

DOI10.1063/1.528401MaRDI QIDQ3833211zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Robert J. Low

Publication date 1989

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1063/1.528401

zbMATH Keywords

causal boundarycausal structurenull geodesicskyspace-timestrongly causal

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

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