Regular and irregular geodesics on spherical harmonic surfaces

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2011.11.010MaRDI QIDQ2428007zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Thomas J. Waters

Publication date 19 April 2012

Published in Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.3231

zbMATH Keywords

geodesics on surfacesHamiltonian formulationMorales-Ramis theoremspherical harmonics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

Abstract: The behavior of geodesic curves on even seemingly simple surfaces can be surprisingly complex. In this paper we use the Hamiltonian formulation of the geodesic equations to analyze their integrability properties. In particular, we examine the behavior of geodesics on surfaces defined by the spherical harmonics. Using the Morales-Ramis theorem and Kovacic algorithm we are able to prove that the geodesic equations on all surfaces defined by the sectoral harmonics are not integrable, and we use Poincar'{e} sections to demonstrate the breakdown of regular motion.

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