Riemannian Geodesics - an Illustration from the Calculus of Variations
General Mathematics
2017-03-21 v1
Abstract
This paper sheds light on the essential characteristics of geodesics, which frequently occur in considerations from motion in Euclidean space. Focus is mainly on a method of obtaining them from the calculus of variations, and an explicit geodesic computation for a Riemannian hypersurface.
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@article{arxiv.1703.06430,
title = {Riemannian Geodesics - an Illustration from the Calculus of Variations},
author = {Uchechukwu Michael Opara},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.06430},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
15 pages, 1 figure, excerpt from Lambert Academic Publishing book published by the same author