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Spherical Pedal Coordinates and Calculus of Variations

BLASCHKE, Petr

Basic information

Original name

Spherical Pedal Coordinates and Calculus of Variations

Authors

Edition

978-3-031-62406-3. Cham, Switzerland, Geometric Methods in Physics XL, Trends in Mathematics, p. 209-221, 13 pp. 2024

Publisher

Birkhäuser Cham

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

10101 Pure mathematics

Country of publisher

Switzerland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

Organization unit

Mathematical Institute in Opava

ISBN

978-3-031-62406-3

ISSN

UT WoS

001308717200016

Keywords in English

Calculus of variation; Classical mechanics; Pedal coordinates; Spherical pedal coordinates

Tags

Tags

International impact, Reviewed

Links

GA21-27941S, research and development project.
Změněno: 30/1/2025 13:05, Mgr. Aleš Ryšavý

Abstract

V originále

Planar curves can be described in terms of pedal coordinates. We will introduce a generalization of this notion for curves on a sphere in Euclidean space. It is observed that certain problems in the calculus of variations can be solved with the help of these coordinates [1]. In particular, we show how the notion of spherical pedal coordinates can be used to solve the spherical version of isoperimetric problems and the problem of brachistochrone.