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Non-geodesic particle trajectories with vanishing higher accelerations (English)
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9 January 2014
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This is a report of potential interest to researchers in the field of classical differential geometry, and in particular to those working on Riemannian and Lorentzian geometries. The authors consider a generalization of the notion of geodesics to \(m\)-parallel curves (which generalizes the concept of curves with vanishing accelerations) as well as \(m\)-geodesics (which generalize geodesics as critical curves of the energy functionals). The authors ask whether unit speed \(m\)-parallel curves and \(m\)-geodesics have to be geodesics (necessarily). It is shown that the answer to such a question is affirmative for Riemannian manifolds but, on the other hand, the corresponding answer is not affirmative in the semi-Riemannian context. Several additional results are provided, in a very well organized and natural manner. The paper is appropriate for a large audience of researchers and graduate students in differential geometry and related fields.
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geodesics and generalizations
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higher accelerations
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Lorentzian manifolds
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Frenet helices
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