Intrinsic characterization of the variable separation in the Hamilton–Jacobi equation

DOI10.1063/1.532226zbMath0899.70011MaRDI QIDQ4384794

Publication date: 26 April 1998

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.532226

zbMATH Keywords

Killing vectors; metric tensor; Killing tensors; Killing webs; nonorthogonal separation of variables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

70H20: Hamilton-Jacobi equations in mechanics

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

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