The Eisenhart geometry as an alternative description of dynamics in terms of geodesics

DOI10.1023/A:1026612225777zbMath0997.37034OpenAlexW90763836MaRDI QIDQ1807318

Marek Szydłowski

Publication date: 18 November 1999

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1026612225777

zbMATH Keywords

desingularizationlapse functionJacobi metricEisenhart geometrygeodesic motion of particles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Lagrange's equations (70H03)

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