Magnetic geodesics on surfaces with singularities

DOI10.1186/S40736-017-0028-1zbMATH Open1384.53041arXiv1604.02009OpenAlexW2340303376WikidataQ59606826 ScholiaQ59606826MaRDI QIDQ1704036FDOQ1704036

Authors: Volker Branding, Wayne Rossman 

Publication date: 8 March 2018

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics for Industry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that, generically, magnetic geodesics on surfaces will turn away from points with lightlike tangent planes, and we motivate our result with numerical solutions for closed magnetic geodesics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.02009

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zbMATH Keywords

surfacesingularitiesnumerical solutionsmagnetic geodesic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

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