• the use of the summation convention. Geodesics can be understood to be the Hamiltonian flows of a special Hamiltonian vector field defined on the cotangent...
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    regard geodesics as Hamiltonian flows. They are solutions of the associated Hamilton equations, with (pseudo-)Riemannian metric taken as Hamiltonian. A geodesic...
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    this Hamiltonian are then the same as the geodesics on the manifold. In particular, the Hamiltonian flow in this case is the same thing as the geodesic flow...
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  • be shown that the equations for a geodesic may be formulated as a Hamiltonian flow, see Geodesics as Hamiltonian flows. The symplectomorphisms from a manifold...
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  • Mathematics portal Physics portal Geodesic Geodetic precession Schwarzschild geodesics Geodesics as Hamiltonian flows Synge's world function Steven Weinberg...
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    derived as conditions of stationary action. Analytical mechanics Configuration space Hamilton–Jacobi equation Phase space Geodesics as Hamiltonian flows Herglotz's...
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  • moment map and geodesic flows, Ann. Global Anal. Geom. 23 (2003) 305; arXiv:math-ph/0109031. Fasso, F., Superintegrable Hamiltonian systems: geometry...
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  • stationarity of the Hamiltonian along the geodesic solution is the integrated running cost reduces to initial cost at t = 0, geodesics of the EL-general...
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  • Integrable system (category Hamiltonian mechanics)
    in the case of autonomous Hamiltonian systems, the energy is generally the only one, and on the energy level sets, the flows are typically chaotic. A key...
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    examples of vector flows include the geodesic flow, the Hamiltonian flow, the Ricci flow, the mean curvature flow, and Anosov flows. Flows may also be defined...
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  • the last one says that the Hamiltonian vector field H for this mechanical system is a full spray. The constant speed geodesics of the underlying Finsler...
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  • diffeomorphisms is then the shortest length or geodesic flow connecting them. The metric on the space associated to the geodesics is given by ρ ( φ , ψ ) = inf ϕ :...
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  • "Geodesic flows on manifolds of constant negative curvature", Uspekhi Mat. Nauk, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 118–137. Mautner, F. I. (1957), "Geodesic flows on...
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    curve-shortening flow can be used to find closed geodesics on Riemannian manifolds, and as a model for the behavior of higher-dimensional flows. A flow is a process...
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  • this is the free-particle Hamiltonian, the solution to the Hamilton-Jacobi equations of motion are simply given by the geodesics on the manifold. In the...
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    Dynamical billiards (category CS1 maint: archived copy as title)
    structure of this Hamiltonian, the equations of motion for the particle, the Hamilton–Jacobi equations, are nothing other than the geodesic equations on the...
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    case of a Hamiltonian is the geodesic Hamiltonian on the cotangent bundle of a compact Riemannian manifold. The quantization of the geodesic flow is given...
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  • Mathematics. His research deals with celestial mechanics, dynamical systems, Hamiltonian dynamics, and ergodic theory. In his dissertation, he solved the Painlevé...
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  • assumed to propagate in a vacuum along a null geodesic in a pseudo-Riemannian manifold. Besides the geodesics principle in a classical field theory there...
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  • Geometric mechanics (category Hamiltonian mechanics)
    Weinstein (1974), both inspired by the work of Smale (1970). Symmetry of a Hamiltonian or Lagrangian system gives rise to conserved quantities, by Noether's...
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    intrinsic nature of the Gaussian curvature, and studied geodesics, computing the area of a geodesic triangle in various non-Euclidean geometries on surfaces...
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  • Tautological one-form (category Hamiltonian mechanics)
    the Hamiltonian flow represents the classical trajectory of a mechanical system obeying the Hamilton-Jacobi equations of motion. The Hamiltonian flow is...
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    flat 3D real space the geodesics are simply straight lines. So for a free particle, Newton's second law coincides with the geodesic equation and states that...
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  • In particular, the geodesics on a Riemannian manifold are given by the solution of the Hamilton–Jacobi equations. The geodesic flow of a flat torus following...
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    Hamiltonian (system). Study of probability distribution of individual eigenstates (see scars and quantum ergodicity). Semiclassical methods such as periodic-orbit...
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  • physics of system. See Hamiltonian mechanics and the article on geodesic flow for an explicit construction of the Hamiltonian equations of motion. Legendre...
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  • Mesyats Geocentric model Geocentric orbit Geodesic Geodesic deviation equation Geodesics as Hamiltonian flows Geodesics in general relativity Geodetic effect...
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  • right-invariance. The lengths of these geodesics give the metric in the metric space structure of human anatomy. Non-geodesic formulations of diffeomorphic mapping...
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  • inverse for the flow given by and the 3 × 3 {\displaystyle 3\times 3} Jacobian matrix for flows in R 3 {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{3}} given as   D φ ≐ ( ∂...
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