Tuesday, May 29, 2012

1205.5952 (Michal Jozwikowski)

Jacobi vector fields for Lagrangian systems on algebroids    [PDF]

Michal Jozwikowski
We study the geometric nature of the Jacobi equation. In particular we prove that Jacobi vector fields (JVFs) along a solution of the Euler-Lagrange (EL) equations are themselves solutions of the EL equations but considered on a non-standard algebroid (different from the tangent bundle Lie algebroid). As a consequence we obtain a simple non-computational proof of the relation between the null subspace of the second variation of the action and the presence of JVFs (and conjugate points) along an extremal. We work in the framework of skew-symmetric algebroids.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.5952

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