Non-Euclidean geometries based on ordinary high-order differential system
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Non-Euclidean geometries based on ordinary high-order differential system
zbMATH Open document ID: 0890.53036
author: Leonid Evgen'evich Evtushik
published in: Moscow University Mathematics Bulletin
publication date: 1998-06-25T00:00:00Z
review text: According to the author, if one looks at the development of non-Euclidean geometry, starting with the work of Nicolai Lobachevskij, the first natural expansion of non-Euclidean geometries (taken as the class of Riemannian spaces), is the class of affinely connected spaces that preserve all the attributes of Riemannian spaces, based on parallel displacement, but loose the metric itself. A common feature of all these types of geometries is that they are based on an affine connection. The coefficients of this connection are the Christoffel symbols, which are the coefficients of a system of second order ordinary differential equations that determines self-parallel geodesics. Therefore it is possible to interpret all these geometries as geometries of similar systems of second order ordinary differential equations and, simultaneously, to complete in a natural way the process of extension of the class of non-Euclidean geometries within the framework of fiber bundles of first order frames. An ordinary second order differential system on a smooth manifold \(V_{n}\) is an arbitrary section \(f:T(V_{n})\rightarrow T^{2}(V_{n})\) under the condition that the coordinate representation of the system will admit a reduction. We can then project the above section into the section \(\varphi :S(V_{n})\rightarrow S^{2}(V_{n})\) of the fiber bundle of elements of second order contact over the bundle \(S(V_{n})\) of linear elements, which is an ordinary second order differential system with \(n-1\) equations. A reducible system \(f\) has the same family of integral curves as its reduced subsystem \(\varphi\), and the only additional equation in the system \(f\) only determines a two-parameter family of parametrizations on the integral curves. In the present article a detailed proof is given for the fact that on a manifold \(V_{n}\) systems of ordinary differential equations of order three and higher, which are reducible, generate geometries on the manifold that are a direct high order an…
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 34A26
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 58A15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 55R10
zbMATH DE Number: 1028414
zbMATH Keywords: reducible systems of differential equations
zbMATH Keywords: Cartan-Laptev method
zbMATH Keywords: jets
zbMATH Keywords: fiber bundles
zbMATH Keywords: nonlinear connections
reviewed by: Ana Pereira do Vale
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
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