An application of Morse theory to space-time geometry
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Publication:1220294
DOI10.1007/BF01608493zbMath0313.58012MaRDI QIDQ1220294
Publication date: 1976
Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Critical points and critical submanifolds in differential topology (57R70) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10) Algebraic topology of manifolds (57N65)
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