On the structure of space-time caustics

DOI10.1007/BF01213213zbMath0557.53036MaRDI QIDQ762476

Kjell Rosquist

Publication date: 1983

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

zbMATH Keywords

Lorentz spacenull geodesicstimelike geodesicscausticconjugate locus

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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