Magnetic geodesics on surfaces with singularities

DOI10.1186/S40736-017-0028-1MaRDI QIDQ1704036zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Volker Branding, Wayne Rossman

Publication date 8 March 2018

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

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

zbMATH Keywords

magnetic geodesicnumerical solutionssingularitiessurface

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)

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.

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