Fermat's principle in general relativity

Rajaram Nityananda and Joseph Samuel
Phys. Rev. D 45, 3862 – Published 15 May 1992
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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.

  • Received 20 November 1991

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.45.3862

©1992 American Physical Society

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Rajaram Nityananda and Joseph Samuel

  • Raman Research Institute, Bangalore 560 080, India

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Vol. 45, Iss. 10 — 15 May 1992

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