Magnetic geodesics on surfaces with singularities
Differential Geometry
2017-03-17 v1 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
We prove that, generically, magnetic geodesics on surfaces will turn away from points with lightlike tangent planes, and we motivate our result with numerical solutions for closed magnetic geodesics.
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@article{arxiv.1604.02009,
title = {Magnetic geodesics on surfaces with singularities},
author = {Volker Branding and Wayne Rossman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.02009},
year = {2017}
}