Differential geometry applied to dynamical systems - Ginoux, Jean-Marc (World Scientific, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-307) and index
This book aims to present a new approach called flow curvature method that applies differential geometry to dynamical systems. Hence, for a trajectory curve, an integral of any n-dimensional dynamical system as a curve in Euclidean n-space, the curvature of the trajectory -- or the flow -- may be analytically computed. Then, the location of the points where the curvature of the flow vanishes defines a manifold called flow curvature manifold. Such a manifold being defined from the time derivatives of the velocity vector field, contains information about the dynamics of the system, hence ..