Geodesics and Killing tensors in mechanics

DOI10.1063/1.2168121zbMath1111.70014OpenAlexW2070091648MaRDI QIDQ3441611

I. M. Benn

Publication date: 16 May 2007

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2168121

zbMATH Keywords

Jacobi metrickinetic energy metric. warped product manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45)

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