Infinitesimal isometries along curves and generalized Jacobi equations

DOI10.1007/S12220-011-9250-8MaRDI QIDQ1935486zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

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)

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

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)

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.

Recommendations

• Infinitesimal isometries of frame bundles with a natural Riemannian metric. II
• On the infinitesimal isometries of manifolds with Killing spinors
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2199621
• Invariant prolongation of the Killing tensor equation
• Lie symmetries of geodesic equations and projective collineations

Cites work

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3126156 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 48987 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3484803 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3194988 (Why is no real title available?)
• A comprehensive introduction to differential geometry. Vol. 1-5
• Curvature invariants, Killing vector fields, connections and cohomogeneity
• Finiteness of infinitesimal deformations and infinitesimal rigidity of hypersurfaces in real Euclidean spaces
• Holonomy and the Lie Algebra of Infinitesimal Motions of a Riemannian Manifold
• Notes on Projective Differential Geometry
• SOLVABILITY OF OVERDETERMINED PDE SYSTEMS THAT ADMIT A COMPLETE PROLONGATION AND SOME LOCAL PROBLEMS IN CR GEOMETRY
• Symmetry via Lie algebra cohomology
• There is More than One Way to Frame a Curve

Cited in

(5)

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3970925 (Why is no real title available?)
• On the dimension of the algebras of local infinitesimal isometries of 3-dimensional special sub-Riemannian manifolds
• Generalized Jacobi equations and the curvature of variational principles
• The Griffiths infinitesimal invariant for a curve in its Jacobian
• Isometries and a generalized Cauchy equation

This page was built for publication: Infinitesimal isometries along curves and generalized Jacobi equations

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q1935486)