Geodesics in the Heisenberg group \(H ^{n }\) with a Lorentzian metric

DOI10.1007/s10883-012-9156-1zbMath1261.58009OpenAlexW2067992245MaRDI QIDQ1928828

Ti-Ren Huang, Xiao-Ping Yang

Publication date: 4 January 2013

Published in: Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10883-012-9156-1

zbMATH Keywords

Heisenberg groupgeodesicsreachable setsLorentz metricconjugate locussub-Lorentzian structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

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Remarks on global sub-Lorentzian geometry

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