Motion of charged particles and homogeneous geodesics in Kähler \(C\)-spaces with two isotropy summands (Q981927)
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Motion of charged particles and homogeneous geodesics in Kähler \(C\)-spaces with two isotropy summands (English)
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9 July 2010
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A curve \(x(t)\) in a Riemannian manifold \((M,g)\) is the motion of a charged particle under the electromagnetic field \(F\) (where \(F\) is a closed \(2\)-form) if it satisfies the differential equation \(\nabla_{\dot{x}}{\dot{x}} = -{\mathcal{L}}^{-1} (\iota_{\dot{x}} F)\), where \({\mathcal{L}}\) is the Legendre transformation and \(\iota\) is the interior product operator. When \(F=0\) then \(x(t)\) is a geodesic in \(M\). If \(M\) is a Kähler manifold, there is a natural choice of an electromagnetic field \(F\) as a scalar multiple of the Kähler form. Then the equation of motion of a charged particle becomes \(\nabla_{\dot{x}}{\dot{x}} = kJ{\dot{x}}\). In previous papers, the above equation was studied for various homogeneous spaces. Explicit solutions of the above equation were given for Hermitian symmetric spaces and for Kähler C-spaces with the second Betti number equal to 1 and satisfying further conditions. In the present work, the classification of Kähler C-spaces for which the above equation can be solved explicitly is given.
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homogeneous space
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charged particle
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Kähler C-space
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