Category Archives: Geometry

Geometry, especially curvature and geodesics

Floating in the Einstein Universe

This post is the third chapter of the “Primer” saga, based on   “A primer on the (2 + 1) Einstein universe” – a paper is written by five mathematicians, T. Barbot, V. Charette, T. Drumm, M. Goldmann, K. Melnick, … Continue reading

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Geodesics of left invariant metrics on matrix Lie groups – Part 2 Conservation laws

In the last post, Geodesics of left invariant metrics on matrix Lie groups – Part 1,we have derived Arnold’s equation – that is a half of the problem of finding geodesics on a Lie group endowed with left-invariant metric. Suppose … Continue reading

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Geodesics of left invariant metrics on matrix Lie groups – Part 1

An elegant derivation of geodesic equations for left invariant metrics has been given by B. Kolev in his paper “Lie groups and mechanics. An introduction”. Here we will derive these equations using simple tools of matrix algebra and differential geometry, … Continue reading

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