Friday, December 15, 2017

homework and exercises - The geodesic line on Poincare half plane


I was calculating the geodesic lines on Poincare half plane but I found I somehow missed a parameter. It would be really helpful if someone could help me find out where my mistake is.


My calculation is the following:


Let ds2=a2y2(dx2+dy2), then we could calculate the nonvanishing Christoffel symbols which are Γxxy=Γxyx=1y,Γyxx=1y,Γyyy=1y. From these and geodesic equations, we have ¨xy1˙x˙y=0

¨y+y1˙x2=0
¨yy1˙y2=0



From the last equation, it's straightforward that y=Ceωλ, where C and λ are integral constants. Then substitute the derivative of y into the first equation, we have, ¨xω˙x=0

Therefore we have x=Deωλ+x0 where D,x0 are integral constants. However, by the second equation, we have, assuming C is nonzero, C2+D2=0
And this leads to a weird result which is (xx0)2+y2=0
But the actual result should be (xx0)2+y2=l2, where l is another constant.




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