Shortening null geodesics in Lorentzian manifolds. Applications to closed light rays

Differential Geometry and its Application

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 47-70

  Masiello, Antonio ^a   Piccione, Paolo ^a  

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Author keywords

Convex sets; Light rays; Lorentzian manifolds; Schwarzschild space time

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031993415     PISSN: 09262245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-2245(97)00020-X     Document Type: Article

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