REMAT (Jan 2024)

On Funk's parabolas

  • Newton Mayer Solórzano Chávez,
  • Junior Rodrigues Moyses,
  • Víctor Arturo Martínez León

DOI
https://doi.org/10.35819/remat2024v10i1id6680
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1

Abstract

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This study aims to analyze parabolas in the two dimensional unit disk equipped with a Funk metric. The analysis leads to four types of parabolas are obtained, due to the non-reversibility of the Funk metric. Each one with applications to physics in the Zermelo navigation problem. In addition, we identify that two of the four parabolas obtained are in well known Euclidian conics, and the remaining two are characterized by irreducible quartics.

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