Geodesics on an ellipsoid in Minkowski space
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zbMATH Open1144.37013arXiv0705.0188MaRDI QIDQ2425368FDOQ2425368
Daniel Genin, Boris Khesin, S. Tabachnikov
Publication date: 29 April 2008
Published in: L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We describe the geometry of geodesics on a Lorentz ellipsoid: give explicit formulas for the first integrals (pseudo-confocal coordinates), curvature, geodesically equivalent Riemannian metric, the invariant area-forms on the time- and space-like geodesics and invariant 1-form on the space of null geodesics. We prove a Poncelet-type theorem for null geodesics on the ellipsoid: if such a geodesic close up after several oscillations in the "pseudo-Riemannian belt", so do all other null geodesics on this ellipsoid.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.0188
Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35)
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