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Designer metric for a vector field

A vector field $V$ on a manifold $M$ admits an invariant metric if there exists a Riemannian metric $g$ with $L_Vg = 0$. How can one characterize the vector fields on $M$ that admit an invariant ...
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is the geodesic flow on Hyperbolic Plane completely integrable?

I'm looking for examples of completely integrable systems and specifically geodesic flows. We remember that when we have a symplectic manifold $(M,\omega)$ (with $M$ of dimension $2n$) and $H:M\...
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Plotting path between sphere or ellipsoid points?

Hi, my apologies if this is not the right place to ask this- I am not a mathematician (I'm a software engineer) and Im working on some 3D applications. My situation is this- given an origin of 0,0,0 ...