Infinitesimal isometries along curves and generalized Jacobi equations

DOI10.1007/S12220-011-9250-8zbMATH Open1259.53012arXiv0906.0821OpenAlexW1996578353MaRDI QIDQ1935486FDOQ1935486

Authors: Robert L. Foote, Chong-Kyu Han, Jong-Won Oh 

Publication date: 18 February 2013

Published in: The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A Jacobi field on a Riemannian manifold M is defined along a geodesic. We generalize this notion to an arbitrary smooth curve, and call it an infinitesimal isometry along the curve. We give two approaches to this: 1) compute the complete prolongation of the Killing equation and then restrict to the curve, and 2) compute the variational equations of a rigid motion of the curve. This results in Killing transport along the curve, which is parallel transport for a related connection on the jet bundle J(TM). We study the curvature and holonomy of this connection. In particular, in dimension two the curvature is the local obstruction to infinitesimal isometries on M.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.0821

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zbMATH Keywords

holonomyJacobi equationKilling fieldsolvabilityGauss-Bonnet theoreminfinitesimal isometrycompletely determined prolongationKilling transport

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local Riemannian geometry (53B20) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29) Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) (58J60) Overdetermined systems of PDEs with variable coefficients (35N10)

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