On the geodesic form of second-order dynamic equations

DOI10.1063/1.533165MaRDI QIDQ2737853zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors L. Mangiarotti, G. Sardanashvily

Publication date 30 August 2001

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/9906001

zbMATH Keywords

geodesic equationtangent bundlenonlinear connectionJacobi vector fieldssecond-order dynamic equationconfiguration bundlenonrelativistic mechanicsquadratic dynamic equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45)

Abstract: It is shown that any second order dynamic equation on a configuration bundle $QoR$ of non-relativistic mechanics is equivalent to a geodesic equation with respect to a (non-linear) connection on the tangent bundle $TQoQ$. The case of quadratic dynamic equations is analyzed in details. The equation for Jacobi vector fields is constructed and investigated by the geometric methods.

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