Variationality of conformal geodesics in dimension 3

DOI10.1007/S13324-025-01124-ZMaRDI QIDQ6861185zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Boris Kruglikov, Vladimir S. Matveev, Wijnand Steneker

Publication date 10 February 2026

Published in Analysis and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S13324-025-01124-Z

zbMATH Keywords

conformal geodesics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Conformal structures on manifolds (53C18) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

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