Fermat's principle in general relativity

DOI10.1007/BF02107999zbMath0808.53073MaRDI QIDQ1340029

Lluis Bel, Jesús San Martín

Publication date: 7 December 1994

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

variational principleFermat's principlecausal structureHamilton- Jacobi formalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22)

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