The equation X detX = detX trX, multiplication of cofactor pair systems, and the Levi-Civita equivalence problem

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2006.03.001MaRDI QIDQ856770zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jens Jonasson

Publication date 7 December 2006

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomphys.2006.03.001

zbMATH Keywords

Levi-Civita equivalencemultiplication cofactor pairRiemannian geometry PDE's

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Integrable cases of motion in rigid body dynamics (70E40) Lagrange's equations (70H03) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05)

Review text

The author is interested in studying a type of PDE related to some problems arising in dynamical systems, and to some previous works by Rauch-Wojciechowski, Marciniak, Lundmark, Waksjö and Benenti. More precisely he studies differential equations of the type \(A^{-1}\nabla V=\widetilde{A}^{-1}\nabla\widetilde{V}\) on an \(n\)-dimensional Riemannian manifold \((Q,g)\), where \(A\) and \(\widetilde{A}\) are nonsingular tensors of rank two, \(\nabla\) is the gradient operator, and \(V\), \(\widetilde{V}\) are two \({\mathbb R}\)-valued functions on \(Q\). Furthermore, he considers suitable algebraic structures on the space of solutions of such equations and obtains methods for constructing new systems with multiplicative structure. He relates the role of the multiplication with the theory of equivalent dynamical systems on Riemannian manifolds. The paper, after a concise introduction, splits into four additional sections: 2. Quasi Cauchy-Riemann equations; 3. Multiplication; 4. The equation \(X\nabla\det X=\det X\nabla \text{TR} X\); 5. Multiplication and Levi-Civita equivalence. The paper ends with some conclusions and interesting questions to examine in the future.

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