Reference : Geometric conditions for the existence of a rolling without twisting or slipping
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Physical, chemical, mathematical & earth Sciences : Mathematics
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/18112
Geometric conditions for the existence of a rolling without twisting or slipping
English
Godoy Molina, Mauricio mailto [University of Bergen > Department of Mathematics]
Grong, Erlend mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Mathematics Research Unit >]
2014
Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis
13
1
435-452
Yes
International
[en] Rolling maps ; geodesic curvatures ; anti-development
[en] We give a complete answer to the question of when two curves in two different Riemannian manifolds can be seen as trajectories of rolling one manifold on the other without twisting or slipping. We show that, up to technical hypotheses, a rolling along these curves exists if and only if the geodesic curvatures of each curve coincide. By using the anti-developments of the curves, which we claim can be seen as a generalization of the geodesic curvatures, we are able to extend the result to arbitrary absolutely continuous curves. For a manifold of constant sectional curvature rolling on itself, two such curves can only differ by an isometry. In the case of surfaces, we give conditions for when loops in the manifolds lift to loops in the configuration space of the rolling.
The first author is partially supported by an ``Emmy-Noether scholarship'' of the DFG. The second author is partially supported by the Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg.
Researchers
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/18112
10.3934/CPAA.2014.13.435

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