Morse theory on timelike and causal curves |
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Authors: | J Everson C J Talbot |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Mathematics, The Polytechnic, Queengate, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England |
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Abstract: | It is shown that the set of timelike curves in a globally hyperbolic space-time manifold can be given the structure of a Hubert manifold under a suitable definition of timelike. The causal curves are the topological closure of this manifold. The Lorentzian energy (corresponding to Milnor's energy, except that the Lorentzian inner product is used) is shown to be a Morse function for the space of causal curves. A fixed end point index theorem is obtained in which a lower bound for the index of the Hessian of the Lorentzian energy is given in terms of the sum of the orders of the conjugate points between the end points. |
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