Abstract
We establish a one-to-one correspondence between static spacetimes and Riemannian manifolds that maps causal geodesics to geodesics, as suggested by L. C. Epstein. We then explore constant curvature spacetimes - such as the de Sitter and the anti-de Sitter universes - and find that they map to constant curvature Riemannian manifolds, namely the Euclidean space, the sphere and the hyperbolic space. By imposing the conditions required to map to the sphere, we obtain the spherically symmetric metrics for which there is radial oscillatory motion with a period independent of the amplitude. We then consider the case of a perfect fluid and an Einstein cluster and determine the pressure and density profiles required to find this type of motion. Finally, we give examples of surfaces corresponding to certain types of motion for metrics that do not exhibit constant curvature, such as the Schwarzschild, Schwarzschild de Sitter and Schwarzschild anti-de Sitter solutions, and even for a simplified model of a wormhole.
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