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The equations for geodesic flow on the ellipsoid are well known, and were first solved by Jacobi in 1838 by separating the variables of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation. In 1979 Moser investigated the case of the general ellipsoid with distinct…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-06-25 Chris M. Davison , Holger R. Dullin , Alexey V. Bolsinov

We prove a recent conjecture of Dragovic et al arXiv2504.20515 stating that the magnetic geodesic flow on the standard sphere $S^n\subset \mathbb R^{n+1}$ whose magnetic 2-form is the restriction of a constant 2-form from $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Alexey V. Bolsinov , Andrey Yu. Konyaev , Vladimir S. Matveev

In this survey article we gather classical as well as recent results on minimal geodesics of Riemannian or Finsler metrics, giving special attention to the two-dimensional case. Moreover, we present open problems together with some first…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-01-26 Jan Philipp Schröder

The impact of magnetic geometry on zonal-flow generation in ion temperature gradient driven turbulence is investigated by means of linear and nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations. The modulation of geodesic curvature on various configurations…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Motoki Nakata , Seikichi Matsuoka

The equations of motion of a charged ideal fluid, respectively the superconductivity equation (both in a given magnetic field) are showed to be geodesic equations on a general, respectively central extension of the group of volume…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-07 Cornelia Vizman

We construct differential invariants that vanish if and only if the geodesic flow of a 2-dimensional metric admits an integral of 3rd degree in momenta with a given Birkhoff-Kolokoltsov 3-codifferential.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-22 Vladimir S. Matveev , Vsevolod V. Shevchishin

In this article, we first investigate the kinematics of specific geodesic flows on two dimensional media with constant curvature, by explicitly solving the evolution (Raychaudhuri) equations for the expansion, shear and rotation along the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-03-23 Anirvan Dasgupta , Hemwati Nandan , Sayan Kar

Magnetic geodesics describe the trajectory of a particle in a Riemannian manifold under the influence of an external magnetic field. In this article, we use the heat flow method to derive existence results for such curves. We first…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-12 Volker Branding , Florian Hanisch

We study $n$-dimensional K\"ahler manifolds whose geodesic flows possess $n$ first integrals in involution that are fibrewise hermitian forms and simultaneously normalizable. Under some mild assumption, one can associate with such a…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Kazuyoshi Kiyohara

We consider a geodesic flow on a compact manifold endowed with a Riemannian (or Finsler, or Lorentz) metric satisfying some generic, explicit conditions. We couple the geodesic flow with a time-dependent potential, driven by an external…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-07-08 Marian Gidea , Rafael de la Llave

In this paper we study the behavior of geodesics on cones over arbitrary $C^3$-smooth closed Riemannian manifolds. We show that the geodesic flow on such cones admits first integrals whose values uniquely determine almost all geodesics…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Andrey E. Mironov , Siyao Yin

Any smooth geodesic flow is locally integrable with smooth integrals. We show that generically this fails if we require, in addition, that the integrals are polynomial (or, more generally, analytic) in momenta. Consequently we obtain that a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-05 Boris Kruglikov , Vladimir S. Matveev

It is well-known that the LIE(Locally Induction Equation) admit soliton-type solutions and same soliton solutions arise from different and apparently irrelevant physical models. By comparing the solitons of LIE and Killing magnetic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Chong Song , Xiaowei Sun , Youde Wang

The problem of reconstruction of a flow of conducting incompressible fluid generating a given magnetic mode is considered. We use the magnetic induction equation to derive ordinary differential equations along the magnetic field lines,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 V. Zheligovsky

Axisymmetric equilibria with incompressible flows of arbitrary direction are studied in the framework of magnetohydrodynamics under a variety of physically relevant side conditions. To this end a set of pertinent non-linear ODEs are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. N. Throumoulopoulos , H. Tasso , G. Poulipoulis

We study Riemannian metrics on surfaces whose geodesic flows are superintegrable with one integral linear in momenta and one integral quartic in momenta. The main results of the work are local description of such metrics in terms of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-05-29 Pavel Novichkov

We study deformations of Riemannian metrics on a given manifold equipped with a codimension-one foliation subject to quantities expressed in terms of its second fundamental form. We prove the local existence and uniqueness theorem and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-16 Vladimir Rovenski , Pawel Walczak

We use a result of J. Mather on the existence of connecting orbits for compositions of monotone twist maps of the cylinder to prove the existence of connecting geodesics on the unit tangent bundle $ST^2$ of the 2-torus in regions without…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-02-08 Stefan Klempnauer

Given a smooth compact surface without focal points and of higher genus, it is shown that its geodesic flow is semi-conjugate to a continuous expansive flow with a local product structure such that the semi-conjugation preserves…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-07-20 Katrin Gelfert , Rafael O. Ruggiero

This paper is a review on recently found connection between geodesically equivalent metrics and integrable geodesic flows. Suppose two different metrics on one manifold have the same geodesics. We show that then the geodesic flows of these…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-08 Vladimir S. Matveev , Petar J. Topalov