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Timelike periodic trajectories in spatially compact Lorentz manifolds

Author(s): Miguel Sánchez
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 127 (1999), 3057-3066.
MSC (1991): Primary 53C50, 53C22
Posted: April 23, 1999
MathSciNet review: 1616609
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Abstract: A result on the existence of timelike periodic trajectories in a general class of Lorentzian manifolds $\mathbb R{}\times M$, with compact $M$, is obtained. The proof is based on arguments concerning closed geodesics and causality theory.

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Additional Information:

Miguel Sánchez
Affiliation: Departamento de Geometría y Topología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, 18071--Granada, Spain
Email: sanchezm@goliat.ugr.es

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-99-04979-5
PII: S 0002-9939(99)04979-5
Keywords: Compact Lorentz manifold, stationary manifold, periodic trajectory, closed geodesic, causality.
Received by editor(s): November 20, 1997
Received by editor(s) in revised form: December 23, 1997
Posted: April 23, 1999
Additional Notes: This research was partially supported by a DGICYT Grant No. PB97-0784-C03-01. The author is grateful to Prof. D. Fortunato and Prof. V. Benci for having discussions.
Communicated by: Christopher B. Croke
Copyright of article: Copyright 1999, American Mathematical Society




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