The Geodesics for Poincaré’s Half-Plane: A Nonstandard Derivation

DOI10.1080/00029890.2023.2181574MaRDI QIDQ6042560zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Gianluca Gorni, Gaetano Zampieri

Publication date 11 May 2023

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.10879

zbMATH Keywords

constant of motiongeodesics time parameterizationhyperbolic geometryLagrangian formalismNoether transformationsymmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Lagrange's equations (70H03) Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H33)

Abstract: Constants of motion are usually derived from groups of symmetry transformation of the system. Here we show that useful properties of the system can be deduced from a family of Noether-like transformations that are not inspired by any symmetry whatsoever. The system here is the Lagrangian interpretation of Poincar'e's half plane, and the property is the shape of the geodesics.

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