Dynamical symmetries: An approach to Jacobi fields and to constants of geodesic motion

DOI10.1063/1.525948zbMath0532.70014OpenAlexW2057299611MaRDI QIDQ3315059

Giacomo Caviglia

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.525948

zbMATH Keywords

conserved quantitiesdynamical symmetryregular LagrangianJacobi field along geodesicsn-dimensional positive definite or four-dimensional Lorentzian metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrange's equations (70H03)

Related Items (8)

Composite variational principles, added variables, and constants of motion ⋮ Symmetry transformations, isovectors, and conservation laws ⋮ The connection between isometries and symmetries of geodesic equations of the underlying spaces ⋮ Symmetry analysis and conservation laws of the geodesic equations for the Reissner-Nordström de Sitter black hole with a global monopole ⋮ The inverse problem in the calculus of variations and the geometry of the tangent bundle ⋮ Conservation laws for the Navier-Stokes equations ⋮ Collision-free gases in spatially homogeneous space-times ⋮ Symmetry generators for null geodesic motion

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• A further note on the Hénon–Heiles problem
• Vector fields generating analysis for classical dissipative systems
• Geodesic deviation and first integrals of motion
• Dynamical symmetries and constants of the motion for classical particle systems

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