Relaxed elastic line on a curved pseudo-hypersurface in pseudo-Euclidean spaces (Q819063)

In the concisely written paper the authors derive the Euler-Lagrange equation for an elastic line lying on a pseudo-hypersurface in a pseudo-Euclidean space \(E^n_v\) with metric tensor \(ds^2=\sum^{n-v}_{i=1} dx_i^2-\sum^n_{i+n_1-v}dx^2_i\). They check whether the solutions which depend on the boundary conditions are geodesics on a pseudo-hypersurface or not. They prove the following result: A relaxed elastic line on a pseudo-hyperplane, a pseudo-hypersphere, a pseudo-hyperbolic space is a geodesic, however a relaxed elastic line on a pseudo-hypercylinder is a space-like geodesic. The paper gives some interesting connections with investigations of A. C. Çöken, G. S. Manning and M. Yilmaz.