Infinitesimally helicoidal motions with fixed pitch of oriented geodesics of a space form

DOI10.1007/S10440-022-00493-YzbMATH Open1494.93011arXiv2208.13010OpenAlexW4280647091MaRDI QIDQ2145673FDOQ2145673

Mateo Anarella, Marcos Salvai

Publication date: 17 June 2022

Published in: Acta Applicandae Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let L be the manifold of all (unparametrized) oriented lines of R^3. We study the controllability of the control system in L given by the condition that a curve in L describes at each instant, at the infinitesimal level, an helicoid with prescribed angular speed alpha. Actually, we pose the analogous more general problem by means of a control system on the manifold G_kappa of all the oriented complete geodesics of the three dimensional space form of curvature kappa: R^3 for kappa = 0, S^3 for kappa = 1 and hyperbolic 3-space for kappa = -1. We obtain that the system is controllable if and only if alpha ^2 not equal kappa. In the spherical case with alpha = (+/-) 1, an admissible curve remains in the set of fibers of a fixed Hopf fibration of S^3. We also address and solve a sort of Kendall's (aka Oxford) problem in this setting: Finding the minimum number of switches of piecewise continuous curves joininig two arbitrary oriented lines, with pieces in some distinguished families of admissible curves.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.13010

zbMATH Keywords

Jacobi fieldspace of oriented geodesicscontrol systemHopf fibrationhelicoidOxford problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Controllability (93B05) Non-Euclidean differential geometry (53A35) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Control of mechanical systems (70Q05) Geometric methods (93B27) Differential geometric aspects in kinematics (53A17)

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