Curvature of gravitationally bound mechanical systems

DOI10.1063/1.530575zbMath0831.70010MaRDI QIDQ4300182

Marek Szydłowski

Publication date: 9 August 1994

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.530575

zbMATH Keywords

Riemannian metric; configuration space; Ricci curvature; geodesic equations; ergodic theory; potential function; natural Lagrangian; geometrical invariants of Jacobi metric; local instability parameters

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

70H05: Hamilton's equations

53C22: Geodesics in global differential geometry

53B50: Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences

70G45: Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics

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