A geometric setting for systems of ordinary differential equations

DOI10.1142/S0219887811005701MaRDI QIDQ2891013zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Oana Constantinescu, Matias F. Dahl, Ioan Bucataru

Publication date 12 June 2012

Published in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.5799

zbMATH Keywords

symmetriesJacobi endomorphismfirst-order variationdynamical covariant derivativeWünschmann invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric methods in ordinary differential equations (34A26) Symmetries, invariants of ordinary differential equations (34C14) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30)

Abstract: To a system of second order ordinary differential equations (SODE) one can assign a canonical nonlinear connection that describes the geometry of the system. In this work we develop a geometric setting that allows us to assign a canonical nonlinear connection also to a system of higher order ordinary differential equations (HODE). For this nonlinear connection we develop its geometry, and explicitly compute all curvature components of the corresponding Jacobi endomorphism. Using these curvature components we derive a Jacobi equation that describes the behavior of nearby geodesics to a HODE. We motivate the applicability of this nonlinear connection using examples from the equivalence problem, the inverse problem of the calculus of variations, and biharmonicity. For example, using components of the Jacobi endomorphism we express two Wuenschmann-type invariants that appear in the study of scalar third or fourth order ordinary differential equations.

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