English
Related papers

Related papers: Time-dependent Zermelo navigation with tacking

200 papers

The generalized Zermelo navigation problem looks for the shortest time paths in an environment, modeled by a Finsler manifold (M,F), under the influence of wind or current, represented by a vector field W. The main objective of this paper…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Benigno Oliveira Alves , Patricia Marcal

We consider the Zermelo navigation problem on the ellipsoid of revolution (spheroid) in the presence of a perturbation $W$ determined by a mild velocity vector field, $|W|<1$, with application of Finsler metric of Randers type in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-25 Piotr Kopacz

In this work, we pose and solve the time-optimal navigation problem considered on a slippery mountain slope modeled by a Riemannian manifold of an arbitrary dimension, under the action of a cross gravitational wind. The impact of both…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Nicoleta Aldea , Piotr Kopacz

In this work, we solve the generalized Matsumoto's slope-of-a-mountain problem by means of Riemann-Finsler geometry, making close links with the Zermelo navigation problem. The time-minimizing navigation under gravity is analyzed in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Nicoleta Aldea , Piotr Kopacz

We generalize and study the Zermelo navigation problem on Hermitian manifolds in the presence of a perturbation $W$ determined by a mild complex velocity vector field $||W(z)||_h<||u(z)||_h$, with application of complex Finsler metric of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-25 Nicoleta Aldea , Piotr Kopacz

Zermelo's navigation problem seeks the trajectory of minimal travel time between two points in a fluid flow. We address this problem for an agent -- such as a micro-robot or active particle -- that is advected by a two-dimensional flow,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-29 Vladimir Parfenyev

We generalize the Zermelo navigation problem and its solution on Riemannian manifolds $(M, h)$ admitting a space dependence of a ship's own speed $|u(x)|_h\leq1$ in the presence of a perturbation $W$ determined by a mild velocity vector…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-25 Piotr Kopacz

We generalize the Zermelo navigation problem and its solution on Riemannian manifolds $(M, h)$ admitting a space dependence of a ship's speed $0<|u(x)|_h\leq1$ in the presence of a perturbation $\tilde{W}$ determined by a strong velocity…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-25 Piotr Kopacz

We study a generalized version of Zermelo's navigation problem where the set of admissible velocities is a general compact convex set, replacing the classical Euclidean ball. After establishing existence results under the natural assumption…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Matteo Della Rossa , Lorenzo Freddi , Mattia Pinatto

The solution to the problem of finding a time-optimal control Hamiltonian to generate a given unitary gate, in an environment in which there exists an uncontrollable ambient Hamiltonian (e.g., a background field), is obtained. In the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 Dorje C. Brody , David Meier

In this paper, we study Zermelo navigation on Riemannian manifolds and use that to solve a long standing problem in Finsler geometry. Namely, the complete classification of strongly convex Randers metrics of constant flag curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David Bao , Colleen Robles , Zhongmin Shen

The notion of wind Finslerian structure is developed; this is a generalization of Finsler metrics where the indicatrices at the tangent spaces may not contain the zero vector. In the particular case that these indicatrices are ellipsoids,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Erasmo Caponio , Miguel Angel Javaloyes , Miguel Sánchez

We consider a triality between the Zermelo navigation problem, the geodesic flow on a Finslerian geometry of Randers type, and spacetimes in one dimension higher admitting a timelike conformal Killing vector field. From the latter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-05-05 G. W. Gibbons , C. A. R. Herdeiro , C. M. Warnick , M. C. Werner

Zermelo navigation is not only a fundamental tool in Finsler geometry but also a fundamental approach to the geometrization of dynamics in physics. In this paper, we consider the Zermelo navigation problem on optical Riemannian space and,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-03 Zonghai Li , Junji Jia

In the present work, we study the optimal control paths in the Zermelo navigation problem from the geometric and differential equations point of view rather than the optimal control point of view, where the latter has been carried out in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Zohreh Fathia , Behroz Bidabad

We investigate the travel time in a navigation problem from a geometric perspective. The setting involves an open subset of the Euclidean plane, representing a lake perturbed by a symmetric wind flow proportional to the distance from the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Newton Solórzano , Víctor León , Alexandre Henrique , Marcelo Souza

A systematic study of (smooth, strong) cone structures $\C$ and Lorentz-Finsler metrics $L$ is carried out. As a link between both notions, cone triples $(\Omega,T, F)$, where $\Omega$ (resp. $T$) is a 1-form (resp. vector field) with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-28 Miguel Angel Javaloyes , Miguel Sánchez

The goal of this paper is to describe Zermelo's navigation problem on Riemannian manifolds as a time-optimal control problem and give an efficient method in order to evaluate its control curvature. We will show that up to change the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-06-12 Ulysse Serres

We generalize the notion of Zermelo navigation to arbitrary pseudo-Finsler metrics possibly defined in conic subsets. The translation of a pseudo-Finsler metric $F$ is a new pseudo-Finsler metric whose indicatrix is the translation of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-02 Miguel Angel Javaloyes , Henrique Vitório

We use a specific geometric method to determine speed limits to the implementation of quantum gates in controlled quantum systems that have a specific class of constrained control functions. We achieve this by applying a recent theorem of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-09 Benjamin Russell , Susan Stepney
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›