Variational Methods in Lorentzian Geometry / Edition 1

by Antonio Masiello

Overview

Appliies variational methods and critical point theory on infinite dimenstional manifolds to some problems in Lorentzian geometry which have a variational nature, such as existence and multiplicity results on geodesics and relations between such geodesics and the topology of the manifold.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780582237995
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/01/1994
Series:	Chapman & Hall/CRC Research Notes in Mathematics Series , #309
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Masiello\, Antonio

Table of Contents

1. Semiriemannian manifolds 2. Hilbert manifolds 3. Stationary Lorentzian manifolds 4. Stationary Lorentzian manifolds with convex boundary 5. A Morse Theory for geodesies on stationary Lorentzian manifolds 6. A Fermat principle for stationary Lorentzian manifolds 7. Applications 8. Geodesics on splitting manifolds