A generalization of the Mariot theorem on congruences of null geodesics

DOI10.1098/rspa.1986.0039zbMath0588.53018OpenAlexW1983520159MaRDI QIDQ3715787

Ivor Robinson, Andrzej Trautman

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1986.0039

zbMATH Keywords

null geodesicscongruence of curvesflag structuregeodesic property

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30)

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