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.
By:
Antonio Masiello Imprint: CRC Press Country of Publication: United Kingdom Volume: 309 Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
Spine: 12mm
Weight: 362g ISBN:9780582237995 ISBN 10: 0582237998 Series:Chapman & Hall/CRC Research Notes in Mathematics Series Pages: 200 Publication Date:01 August 1994 Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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A / AS level
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Further / Higher Education
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
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