Semi-Riemannian geometry with nonholonomic constraints

DOI10.11650/TWJM/1500406366MaRDI QIDQ647259zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Anna Korolko, Irina Markina

Publication date 1 December 2011

Published in Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.1477

zbMATH Keywords

exponential mapnondegenerate metricquaternionssemi-Riemannian manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

Abstract: In the present article the geometry of semi-Riemannian manifolds with nonholonomic constraints is studied. These manifolds can be considered as analogues to the sub-Riemannian manifolds, where the positively definite metric is substituted by a nondegenerate metric. To study properties of the exponential map the Christoffel symbols and other differential operators were introduced. We study solutions of the Hamiltonian system and their projections into the underlying manifold. The explicit formulae were found for a specific example of a semi-Riemannian manifold with nonholonomic constraints.

Review text

Sub-Riemannian manifolds, roughly speaking, are triples consisting of a manifold, a horizontal subbundle and a Riemannian metric on the horizontal subbundle. The authors in the current paper consider to replace the Riemannian with a Lorentzian metric and study the corresponding geometry and analysis, including exponential map, the Christoffel symbols, differential operators, etc. They also study the solutions to the related Hamiltonian system and their projections into the underlying manifolds. The conclusions posed here are interesting.

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