Geodesics in conical manifolds
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Geodesics, nonsmooth critical point theory, nonsmooth manifoldsAbstrakt
The aim of this paper is to extend the definition of geodesics to conical manifolds, defined as submanifolds of ${\mathbb R}^n$ with a finite number of singularities. We look for an approach suitable both for the local geodesic problem and for the calculus of variation in the large. We give a definition which links the local solutions of the Cauchy problem (1.1) with variational geodesics, i.e. critical points of the energy functional. We prove a deformation lemma (Theorem 2.2) which leads us to extend the Lusternik-Schnirelmann theory to conical manifolds, and to estimate the number of geodesics (Theorem 3.4 and Corollary 3.5). In Section 4, we provide some applications in which conical manifolds arise naturally: in particular, we focus on the brachistochrone problem for a frictionless particle moving in $S^n$ or in ${\mathbb R}^n$ in the presence of a potential $U(x)$ unbounded from below. We conclude with an appendix in which the main results are presented in a general framework.Pobrania
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2005-06-01
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GHIMENTI, Marco. Geodesics in conical manifolds. Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis [online]. 1 czerwiec 2005, T. 25, nr 2, s. 235–261. [udostępniono 3.7.2024].
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