On Hammersley's minimum problem for a rolling sphere

DOI10.1017/S0305004100064471zbMath0608.49013OpenAlexW2166751917MaRDI QIDQ3748846

G. R. Walsh, A. M. Arthurs

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305004100064471

zbMATH Keywords

shortest pathquaternionselliptic integralsrolling sphere

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Functions of hypercomplex variables and generalized variables (30G35) Optimality conditions for problems involving ordinary differential equations (49K15) Elliptic functions and integrals (33E05) Dynamics of a rigid body and of multibody systems (70E99)

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