Isotropic tangency

DOI10.1016/S0393-0440(96)00021-6MaRDI QIDQ677523zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jens Chr. Larsen

Publication date 2 June 1998

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0393-0440(96)00021-6

zbMATH Keywords

degenerate metricgeodesicsreal analytic vector field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local submanifolds (53B25) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05) Atomic physics (81V45)

Review text

This paper proves the existence and uniqueness of geodesics through singular points on a real analytic surface with a real analytic symmetric two-tensor field \(g\) when the tangent space to the singular set is isotopic at the singular point. The setting in higher dimensions is indicated. Using the same techniques, the existence of three collision orbits is proved for the Hamiltonian vector field representing Coulomb forces of the helium atom.

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• Metric singularities
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• Geodesics and Jacobi fields in singular semi-riemannian geometry

Cites work

• Complex analysis, maximal immersions and metric singularities
• Geodesics and Jacobi fields in singular semi-riemannian geometry
• Lorentzian geodesic flows
• Pseudo-Riemannian Metric Singularities and the Extendability of Parallel Transport
• Singular semi-Riemannian geometry
• Submanifold geometry

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• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6390886 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2169841 (Why is no real title available?)

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