Symmetries and conserved quantities in geodesic motion

DOI10.1063/1.527375zbMath0594.53051OpenAlexW2037715476MaRDI QIDQ3725145

Luis Núñez, Sergio A. Hojman, Alberto Patino, Héctor Rago

Publication date: 1986

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.527375

zbMATH Keywords

conserved quantitiesgeodesic motionLagrange functionspace- timestest particleRiemannian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50)

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• Equivalent Lagrangians: Multidimensional case
• First-order equivalent Lagrangians and conservation laws
• Geodesic first integrals with explicit path-parameter dependence in Riemannian space–times
• On the inverse problem of the calculus of variations

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