Nonisolated spacelike focal and conjugate points in Lorentzian geometry

DOI10.1063/1.3266873zbMath1373.53095OpenAlexW2015824059MaRDI QIDQ3583763

Seon-Bu Kim, Paul E. Ehrlich, Jong Ryul Kim

Publication date: 17 August 2010

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3266873

zbMATH Keywords

Lorentzian geometrydegenerate focal and conjugate pointsnonisolated conjugate pointsnonisolated focal points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

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Cites Work

• On conjugate and focal points in semi-Riemannian geometry
• Jacobi tensors and Ricci curvature
• Conjugate points on spacelike geodesics or pseudo-self-adjoint Morse-Sturm-Liouville systems
• A note on the Morse index theorem for geodesics between submanifolds in semi-Riemannian geometry

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