Reduction for the projective arclength functional

DOI10.1515/form.2005.17.4.569zbMath1084.53012MaRDI QIDQ5692981

Emilio Musso, Lorenzo Nicolodi

Publication date: 28 September 2005

Published in: Forum Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://porto.polito.it/1994213/1/forum_proj_copia.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

exterior differential systems; real projective plane; stationary curve; reduction procedure for Hamiltonian systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

58A15: Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory)

58E10: Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable)

37K35: Lie-Bäcklund and other transformations for infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems

53A20: Projective differential geometry

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