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Force free projective motions of the sphere
Authors:M Marcela Lazarte  Marcos Salvai  Adrián Will
Institution:1. FaMAF-CIEM, Ciudad Universitaria, 5000 Córdoba, Argentina;2. Departamento de Matemática, FaCET, Av. Independencia 1800, 4000 Tucumán, Argentina
Abstract:Suppose that the sphere SnSn has initially a homogeneous distribution of mass and let GG be the Lie group of orientation preserving projective diffeomorphisms of SnSn. A projective motion of the sphere, that is, a smooth curve in GG, is called force free if it is a critical point of the kinetic energy functional. We find explicit examples of force free projective motions of SnSn and, more generally, examples of subgroups HH of GG such that a force free motion initially tangent to HH remains in HH for all time (in contrast with the previously studied case for conformal motions, this property does not hold for H=SOn+1H=SOn+1). The main tool is a Riemannian metric on GG, which turns out to be not complete (in particular not invariant, as happens with non-rigid motions), given by the kinetic energy.
Keywords:22E43  22E70  53C22  70K25
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