Intrinsic characterisation of orthogonal separation of one coordinate in the Hamilton-Jacobi equation

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/15/7/012zbMath0495.70030MaRDI QIDQ3959501

Willard jun. Miller, Ernest G. Kalnins

Publication date: 1982

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/15/7/012

zbMATH Keywords

complete integral; intrinsic coordinate- free characterization of orthogonal separation; involutive family of Killing tensors; non-null separable coordinate; Woodhouse construction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C20: Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching

70H20: Hamilton-Jacobi equations in mechanics

70G45: Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics

35F99: General first-order partial differential equations and systems of first-order partial differential equations

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