Force free conformal motions of the sphere.

DOI10.1016/S0926-2245(02)00061-XMaRDI QIDQ1608978zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Marcos Salvai

Publication date 14 August 2002

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0926-2245(02)00061-x

zbMATH Keywords

\(n\)-sphereconformal groupdistribution of massforce free motion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lie groups (22E99) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Free motion of a rigid body (70E15) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45)

Review text

The author studies force free motion of a nonrigid body on the \(n\)-sphere, equipped with its standard metric. Nonrigidness is described by the fact that two configurations differ by the action of an element of the conformal group \(G\) of the sphere. Following the methods described by \textit{V. I. Arnold} in ``Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics, Springer, New York (1978; Zbl 0386.70001), the author associates to a distribution of mass on the sphere a Riemanniann metric on \(G\) in such a way that geodesics on \(G\) induce force free motions of the mass. He then gives properties of this metric. In particular \(G\) is not complete with respect to it.

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