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The three-body general problem is formulated as a problem of geodesic trajectories flows on the Riemannian manifold. It is proved that a curved space with local coordinate system allows to detect new hidden symmetries of the internal motion…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-06-30 A. S. Gevorkyan

The geodesic equation encodes test-particle dynamics at arbitrary gravitational coupling, hence retaining all orders in the post-Minkowskian (PM) expansion. Here we explore what geodesic motion can tell us about dynamical scattering in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-20 Clifford Cheung , Nabha Shah , Mikhail P. Solon

We deal, for the classical $N$-body problem, with the existence of action minimizing half entire expansive solutions with prescribed asymptotic direction and initial configuration of the bodies. We tackle the cases of hyperbolic,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-10-11 Davide Polimeni , Susanna Terracini

In this article we study the geodesic motion of test particles and light in the five-dimensional Myers-Perry-anti de Sitter spacetime. We derive the equations of motion and present their solutions in terms of the Weierstra{\ss} $\wp$-,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-12 Saskia Grunau , Hendrik Neumann , Stephan Reimers

The Jacobi-Maupertuis metric provides a reformulation of the classical N-body problem as a geodesic flow on an energy-dependent metric space denoted $M_E$ where $E$ is the energy of the problem. We show that $M_E$ has finite diameter for $E…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Richard Montgomery

The method of Hessian measures is used to find the differential equation that defines the optimal shape of nonrotationally symmetric bodies with minimal resistance moving in a rare medium. The synthesis of optimal solutions is described. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-08 L. V. Lokutsievskiy , M. I. Zelikin

A class of exact solutions of the geodesic equations in (anti-)de Sitter AdS$_4$ and dS$_4$ spacetimes is presented. The geodesics for test particles in AdS$_4$ and dS$_4$ spacetimes are respectively sinusoidal and hyperbolic sine world…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-26 Nguyen Phuc Ky Tho

We consider the motion of several rigid bodies immersed in a two-dimensional incompress-ible perfect fluid, the whole system being bounded by an external impermeable fixed boundary. The fluid motion is described by the incompressible Euler…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Olivier Glass , Christophe Lacave , Alexandre Munnier , Franck Sueur

In this talk we shall show a perfect fluid cosmological model and its properties. The model possesses an orthogonally transitive abelian two-dimensional group of isometries that corresponds to cylindrical symmetry. The matter content is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-01 L. Fernández Jambrina

The geodesic properties of the extraordinary vacuum string solution in (4+1) dimensions are analyzed by using Hamilton-Jacobi method. The geodesic motions show distinct properties from those of the static one. Especially, any freely falling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-18 Bogeun Gwak , Bum-Hoon Lee , Wonwoo Lee , Hyeong-Chan Kim

In a suitably chosen essentially unique frame tied to a given observer in a general spacetime, the equation of geodesic deviation can be decomposed into a sum of terms describing specific effects: isotropic (background) motions associated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Bicak , J. Podolsky

In this paper, we derive corrections to the geodesic equation due to the $k$-deformation of curved space-time, up to the first order in the deformation parameter a. This is done by generalizing the method from our previous paper [31], to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-16 E. Harikumar , T. Juric , S. Meljanac

We investigate the geodesics in the entire class of nonexpanding impulsive gravitational waves propagating in an (anti-)de Sitter universe using the distributional form of the metric. Employing a 5-dimensional embedding formalism and a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-03 Clemens Sämann , Roland Steinbauer , Alexander Lecke , Jiří Podolský

In a previous article a relationship was established between the linearized metrics of General Relativity associated with geodesics and the Dirac Equation of quantum mechanics. In this paper the extension of that result to arbitrary curves…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Paul O'Hara

In this work we study the general system of geodesic equations for the case of a massive particle moving on an arbitrary curved manifold. The investigation is carried out from the symmetry perspective. By exploiting the parametrization…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-05 N. Dimakis , Petros A. Terzis , T. Christodoulakis

In a previous article a relationship was established between the linearized metrics of General Relativity associated with geodesics and the Dirac Equation of quantum mechanics. In this paper the extension of that result to arbitrary curves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-11 Paul O'Hara

We derive the complete asymptotic expansion in terms of powers of $N$ for the geodesic $f$-energy of $N$ equally spaced points on a rectifiable simple closed curve $\Gamma$ in ${\mathbb R}^p$, $p\geq2$, as $N \to \infty$. For $f$ decreasing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-17 J. S. Brauchart , D. P. Hardin , E. B. Saff

Let X be a manifold equipped with a complete Riemannian metric of constant negative curvature and finite volume. We demonstrate the finiteness of the collection of totally geodesic immersed hypersurfaces in X that lie in the zero-level set…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Chris Judge , Sugata Mondal

We generalize the Newtonian n-body problem to spaces of curvature k=constant, and study the motion in the 2-dimensional case. For k>0, the equations of motion encounter non-collision singularities, which occur when two bodies are antipodal.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-02-21 Florin Diacu , Ernesto Perez-Chavela , Manuele Santoprete

Geodesics escape is widely used to study the scattering of hyperbolic equations. However, there are few progresses except in a simply connected complete Riemannian manifold with nonpositive curvature. We propose a kind of complete…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Zhen-Hu Ning , Fengyan Yang , Xiaopeng Zhao