Reduction for Constrained Variational Problems on 3-Dimensional Null Curves

DOI10.1137/070686470MaRDI QIDQ3629493zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Emilio Musso, Lorenzo Nicolodi

Publication date 27 May 2009

Published in SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.0483

zbMATH Keywords

extremal trajectoriesinvariant variational problemsLax formulationMarsden-Weinstein reductionmoving framesnull curvesoptimal control systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Pfaffian systems (58A17) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

Abstract: We consider the optimal control problem for null curves in de Sitter 3-space defined by a functional which is linear in the curvature of the trajectory. We show how techniques based on the method of moving frames and exterior differential systems, coupled with the reduction procedure for systems with a Lie group of symmetries lead to the integration by quadratures of the extremals. Explicit solutions are found in terms of elliptic functions and integrals.

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