On the space of light rays of a spacetime and a reconstruction theorem by Low

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/31/7/075020zbMath1291.83036arXiv1309.7774OpenAlexW3100534343MaRDI QIDQ5416485

A. Bautista, J. Lafuente, Alberto Ibort

Publication date: 20 May 2014

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.7774

zbMATH Keywords

light raysLegendrian knotscontact structurescausal structurenull geodesicstrongly causal spacetimespace of skies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological characterizations of particular spaces (54F65) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10)

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