On the finiteness of light rays between a source and an observer on conformally stationary space-times

DOI10.1023/A:1010244824124zbMath0980.83016OpenAlexW121813505WikidataQ125622830 ScholiaQ125622830MaRDI QIDQ5943151

Paolo Piccione, Antonio Masiello, Fabio Giannoni

Publication date: 9 September 2001

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1010244824124

zbMATH Keywords

light raysgravitational lensingstatic and stationary Lorentzian manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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