Fermat's principle in general relativity

Nityananda, Rajaram ; Samuel, Joseph (1992) Fermat's principle in general relativity Physical Review D, 45 (10). pp. 3862-3864. ISSN 0556-2821

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Official URL: http://prd.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v45/i10/p3862_1

Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.45.3862

Abstract

Kovner has observed that Fermat's principle can be used to describe the motion of light rays in arbitrary gravitational fields, not just stationary ones. We give a simple demonstration of this fact.

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