On the existence of infinitely many geodesics on space-time manifolds

DOI10.1006/aima.1994.1036zbMath0808.58016OpenAlexW2041530316MaRDI QIDQ1328481

Vieri Benci, Donato Fortunato

Publication date: 17 August 1994

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1006/aima.1994.1036

zbMATH Keywords

Palais-Smale conditiongeodesicscritical pointsLorentz metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

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