The Index of a Geodesic in a Randers Space and Some Remarks about the Lack of Regularity of the Energy Functional of a Finsler Metric

In a series of papers ([2, 3, 4]) the relations existing between the metric properties of Randers spaces and the conformal geometry of stationary Lorentzian manifolds were discovered and investigated. These relations were called in [4] Stationary-to-Randers Correspondence (SRC). In this paper we focus on one aspect of SRC, the equality between the index of a geodesic in a Randers space and that of its lightlike lift in the associated conformal stationary spacetime. Moreover we make some remarks about regularity of the energy functional of a Finsler metric on the infinite dimensional manifold of H curves connecting two points, in connection with infinite dimensional techniques in Morse Theory.