Geodesic flows on compact surfaces -- as an application of Hamiltonian formalism

DOI10.1016/0898-1221(93)90083-8MaRDI QIDQ2367577zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 19 September 1993

Published in Computers & Mathematics with Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0898-1221(93)90083-8

zbMATH Keywords

ellipsoidgeodesic flowHamiltonian flowRiemannian manifoldtwo-torus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25)

Review text

The author derives the well known fact that the geodesic flow on a Riemannian manifold is just the Hamiltonian flow for the pointwise energy as Hamiltonian. Explicit equations for the geodesics on the two-torus \(T^ 2\) of rotation and the ellipsoid with three different major axes are given, and the closed geodesics on \(T^ 2\) are determined; all this is well known as well.

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