Second order variational problem and 2-dimensional concircular geometry

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Authors Roman Ya. Matsyuk

Publication date 22 September 2009

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.6194

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

Abstract: It is proved that the set of geodesic circles in two dimensions may be given a variational description and the explicit form of it is presented. In the limit case of the Euclidean geometry a certain claim of uniqueness of such description is proved. A formal notion of 'spin' force is discovered as a by-product of the variation procedure involving the acceleration.

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• Variationality of geodesic circles in two dimensions

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