Lorentzian manifolds admitting a killing vector field

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 643-654

  Sánchez, Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bochner's technique; Closed geodesies; Einstein Lorentzian manifolds; Geodesic completeness; Geodesic connectedness; Isometry groups; Killing vector fields; Lorentzian manifolds; Lorentzian torus; Periodic trajectories

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000872811     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0362-546X(97)00041-2     Document Type: Article

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