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Generalized elastic curves in the Lorentz flat space L4

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  • Department of Mathematics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, P. R. China

Received date: 2009-03-23

  Revised date: 2009-07-03

  Online published: 2009-09-01

Abstract

In this paper, we study the extremals of the curvature energy actions on non-null curves in the four-dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space. We derive the motion equations and find three Killing fields along the generalized elastic curves. We also construct a cylindrical coordinate system using these Killing fields and express the generalized elastic curves by means of quadratures.

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HUANG Rong-Pei;SHANG Dong-Hu . Generalized elastic curves in the Lorentz flat space L4[J]. Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 2009 , 30(9) : 1193 -1200 . DOI: 10.1007/s10483-009-0914-x

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