Geodesic Webs and PDE Systems of Euler Equations
Differential Geometry
2008-10-31 v1
Abstract
We find necessary and sufficient conditions for the foliation defined by level sets of a function f(x_{1},...,x_{n}) to be totally geodesic in a torsion-free connection and apply them to find the conditions for d-webs of hypersurfaces to be geodesic, and in the case of flat connections, for d-webs (d > n) of hypersurfaces to be hyperplanar webs. These conditions are systems of generalized Euler equations, and for flat connections we give an explicit construction of their solutions.
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@article{arxiv.0810.5417,
title = {Geodesic Webs and PDE Systems of Euler Equations},
author = {Vladislav V. Goldberg and Valentin V. Lychagin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.5417},
year = {2008}
}
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9 pages