Jacobi fields and linear connections for arbitrary second-order ODEs.

DOI10.1016/S0393-0440(02)00030-XzbMath1039.53041MaRDI QIDQ1864913

Yanyan Li

Publication date: 23 March 2003

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0393-0440(02)00030-x

zbMATH Keywords

second-order differential equation; Raychaudhuri's equation; Jacobi tensors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

34A26: Geometric methods in ordinary differential equations

37C10: Dynamics induced by flows and semiflows

53C22: Geodesics in global differential geometry

70G45: Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics

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