Timeline for Moving under the influence of a vector field
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| Sep 11, 2017 at 11:23 | history | edited | Joseph O'Rourke | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 27, 2012 at 6:45 | comment | added | Ryan Budney | Okay, then you're looking at the causal structure on the plane minus the zeros of the vector field / Lorentz structure. | |
| Apr 27, 2012 at 1:47 | answer | added | TerronaBell | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 26, 2012 at 21:34 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | @Ryan: Thanks for the "Lorentz structure" hint; that connection did not occur to me. | |
| Apr 26, 2012 at 21:31 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | @Ryan: Good question! I must allow zeros, for rotations about a point are among my vector fields. I guess then $u(p)$ must also be zero: the particle stops and stays there. | |
| Apr 26, 2012 at 21:21 | comment | added | Ryan Budney | What should your constraint mean at a zero of the vector field? If you don't allow zeros, I'd say you have a Lorentz structure on the plane, and you're asking about the causal relationships between points. | |
| Apr 26, 2012 at 21:18 | history | asked | Joseph O'Rourke | CC BY-SA 3.0 |