Reduction for the projective arclength functional

DOI10.1515/FORM.2005.17.4.569MaRDI QIDQ5692981zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Emilio Musso, Lorenzo Nicolodi

Publication date 28 September 2005

Published in Forum Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://porto.polito.it/1994213/1/forum_proj_copia.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

exterior differential systemsreal projective planereduction procedure for Hamiltonian systemsstationary curve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lie-Bäcklund and other transformations for infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37K35) Projective differential geometry (53A20) Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory) (58A15) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

Review text

Based on the 1922 seminal work of E. Cartan, Griffiths developed a systematic geometry approach to the calculus of variations in one variable making use of the theory of exterior differential systems. In this article the authors deal with the functional \[ {\mathfrak L}(\gamma)= \int_\gamma\text{d}\tau_\gamma, \] defined on parametrized curves \(\gamma:I=(a,b)\to P^2\) in the real projective plane, where \(\tau_\gamma\) is the projective arclength. In the present paper they want to gain insight into the geometric aspects of integrability of the extrema. To this end they use methods from the theory of exterior differential systems and the reduction procedure for Hamiltonian systems with a Lie group of symmetries. A scheme of integration is illustrated.

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