Geodesic mappings of the ellipsoid

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Authors Konrad Voss

Publication date 22 May 2002

zbMATH Keywords

geodesicsminimal intersectionsRiemannian metricsurfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Methods of local Riemannian geometry (53B21) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

Review text

The author proves the existence of a 1-parameter family of nonhomothetic ovaloids in Euclidean 3-space such that the metrics are geodesically equivalent to the metric of the triaxial ellipsoid.NEWLINENEWLINEFor the entire collection see [Zbl 0954.00038].

Cited in

(7)

• The oblique azimuthal projection of geodesic type for the biaxial ellipsoid: Riemann polar and normal coordinates
• Geodesics on an ellipsoid in Minkowski space
• Geodesics on the ellipsoid and monodromy
• The Numerics of Computing Geodetic Ellipsoids
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 149702 (Why is no real title available?)
• Vertex Latitudes on Ellipsoid Geodesics
• Geometry of the rolling ellipsoid.

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