Twistor geometry of a pair of second order ODEs

DOI10.1007/s00220-013-1729-7zbMath1277.53044arXiv1203.4158OpenAlexW3101146730WikidataQ125851257 ScholiaQ125851257MaRDI QIDQ356702

Paul Tod, Maciej Dunajski, Stephen D. Casey

Publication date: 26 July 2013

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.4158

zbMATH Keywords

differential geometrypath geometryconformal structureFinsler structuresecond-order ODEstorsionfree ODE systemtwistor geometryWiłczynski invariants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric methods in ordinary differential equations (34A26) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Twistor methods in differential geometry (53C28) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)

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