Some examples of the behaviour of conformal geodesics

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2012.03.010MaRDI QIDQ432277zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paul Tod

Publication date 4 July 2012

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.6151

zbMATH Keywords

conformal geometryconformal geodesicsspirals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30)

Abstract: With the aid of concrete examples, we consider the question of whether, in the presence of conformal curvature, a conformal geodesic can become trapped in smaller and smaller sets, or phrased informally: are spirals possible? We do not arrive at a definitive answer, but we are able to find situations where this behaviour is ruled out, including a reduction of the conformal-geodesic equations to quadratures in a specific non-conformally flat metric.

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