Swimming in curved space or The Baron and the cat

DOI10.1088/1367-2630/8/5/068arXivmath-ph/0602053MaRDI QIDQ6469653FDOQ6469653

Authors: J. E. Avron, O. Kenneth 

Publication date: 22 February 2006

Abstract: We study the swimming of non-relativistic deformable bodies in (empty) static curved spaces. We focus on the case where the ambient geometry allows for rigid body motions. In this case the swimming equations turn out to be geometric. For a small swimmer, the swimming distance in one stroke is determined by the Riemann curvature times certain moments of the swimmer.

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