Hamiltonians for curves

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/35/31/304zbMATH Open1039.53002arXivnlin/0204049OpenAlexW2149812909MaRDI QIDQ4465992FDOQ4465992

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Publication date: 9 June 2004

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

Abstract: We examine the equilibrium conditions of a curve in space when a local energy penalty is associated with its extrinsic geometrical state characterized by its curvature and torsion. To do this we tailor the theory of deformations to the Frenet-Serret frame of the curve. The Euler-Lagrange equations describing equilibrium are obtained; Noether's theorem is exploited to identify the constants of integration of these equations as the Casimirs of the euclidean group in three dimensions. While this system appears not to be integrable in general, it {it is} in various limits of interest. Let the energy density be given as some function of the curvature and torsion, $f(kappa,au)$. If $f$ is a linear function of either of its arguments but otherwise arbitrary, we claim that the first integral associated with rotational invariance permits the torsion $au$ to be expressed as the solution of an algebraic equation in terms of the bending curvature, $kappa$. The first integral associated with translational invariance can then be cast as a quadrature for $kappa$ or for $au$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0204049

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Relations of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian dynamical systems with topology, geometry and differential geometry (37K25)

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