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We study the geodesic motion in a space-time describing a swirling universe. We show that the geodesic equations can be fully decoupled in the Hamilton-Jacobi formalism leading to an additional constant of motion. The analytical solutions…
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In this paper, we present the geodesic-like algorithm for the computation of the shortest path between two objects on NURBS surfaces and periodic surfaces. This method can improve the distance problem not only on surfaces but in…
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We present an improved form of the algorithm for constructing Jacobi rotations. This is simultaneously a more accurate code for finding the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a real symmetric 2x2 matrix.
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