Killing pairs and Newtonian integrals of motion

DOI10.1007/BF00403272zbMath0532.70010MaRDI QIDQ789188

Basilis C. Xanthopoulos

Publication date: 1982

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

zbMATH Keywords

Riemannian manifoldpotential functionconfiguration space description of integralsintegrals of geodesicsKilling pairs of symmetric tensor fieldsorbits of conservative Newtonian systemrational functions in velocity coordinates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Holonomic systems related to the dynamics of a system of particles (70F20) Generalized coordinates; event, impulse-energy, configuration, state, or phase space for problems in mechanics (70G10)

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Dynamical symmetries: An approach to Jacobi fields and to constants of geodesic motion ⋮ Dynamical symmetries of the geodesic equation

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