Distinguished curves and integrability in Riemannian, conformal, and projective geometry (Q2674216): Difference between revisions

The authors find a new description of geodesics in various geometries, as having some parallel object from some tractor bundle. This description relates geodesics naturally to the solutions of various differential equations, including the first BGG equation and the Killing and conformal Killing equations, from which constants of the motion can be derived.