On General Plane Fronted Waves. Geodesics

General Relativity and Gravitation

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 631-649

  Candela, A M ^a   Flores, J L ^b   Sanchez M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Causal geodesics; Completeness; Geodesic connectedness; Gravitational waves; Ljusternik Schnirelman theory; Plane fronted waves; Variational methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345867043     PISSN: 00017701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022962017685     Document Type: Article

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