Geometric conditions for the existence of a rolling without twisting or slipping

DOI10.3934/CPAA.2014.13.435zbMATH Open1316.37037arXiv1111.0752OpenAlexW2054699893MaRDI QIDQ2391366FDOQ2391366

Authors: Mauricio Godoy Molina, Erlend Grong 

Publication date: 31 July 2013

Published in: Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give a complete answer to the question of when two curves in two different Riemannian manifolds can be seen as trajectories of rolling one manifold on the other without twisting or slipping. We show that up to technical hypotheses, a rolling along these curves exists if and only if the geodesic curvatures of each curve coincide. By using the anti-developments of the curves, which we claim can seen of as a generalization of the geodesic curvatures, we are able to extend the result to arbitrary absolutely continuous curves. For a manifold of constant sectional curvature rolling on itself, two such curves can only differ by an isometry. In the case of surfaces, we give conditions for when loops in the manifolds lift to loops in the configuration space of the rolling.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.0752

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zbMATH Keywords

geodesic curvaturesanti-developmentrolling map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects (53A55) Nonholonomic systems related to the dynamics of a system of particles (70F25) Nonholonomic dynamical systems (37J60) Differential geometric aspects in kinematics (53A17)

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