Geodesic connectedness in Gödel type space-times

Differential Geometry and its Application

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 105-120

  Candela, Anna Maria ^a   Sánchez, Miguel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Geodesic completeness; Geodesic connectedness; G del type space times; Ljusternik Schnirelman theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034148232     PISSN: 09262245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-2245(99)00039-X     Document Type: Article

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