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Generalized Zermelo navigation on Hermitian manifolds under mild wind

Differential Geometry 2019-03-25 v1

Abstract

We generalize and study the Zermelo navigation problem on Hermitian manifolds in the presence of a perturbation WW determined by a mild complex velocity vector field W(z)h<u(z)h||W(z)||_h<||u(z)||_h, with application of complex Finsler metric of complex Randers type. By admitting space-dependence of ship's relative speed u(z)h1||u(z)||_h\leq1 we discuss the projectively related complex Finsler metrics, the geodesics corresponding to the solutions of Zermelo's problem, in particular the conformal case and the connections between the corresponding background Hermitian metric hh, new Hermitian metric aa and resulting complex Randers metric FF. Moreover, we present some necessary and sufficient conditions for the obtained locally projectively flat solutions. Our findings are also illustrated with several examples.

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@article{arxiv.1611.03742,
  title  = {Generalized Zermelo navigation on Hermitian manifolds under mild wind},
  author = {Nicoleta Aldea and Piotr Kopacz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.03742},
  year   = {2019}
}

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19 pages

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