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3. Lagrangean Conventional Euclidean Spaces  and Pseudoeuclidean Spaces .

Let N denote the number of material particles making a classical closed system. Time back, Lagrange has noted that kinematics and dynamics of, say, two material particles A (xA, yA, zA) and B (xB, yB, zB) having masses of rest  and  may be formally interpreted in a conventional Euclidean space  in a way as if only one material point having mass  is moving in that space. Here the only idea is that six coordinates zs (s=1,2,...,6) of this "united" particle should be defined as follows:

(3.1)

If these coordinates are set off in the directions of six orthogonal unit vectors  then at any moment of absolute time t the position of the "united" particle and its kinetic energy T(t) will be described by expressions

. (3.2)

On the grounds of six-dimensional conventional Euclidean space  having basis unit vectors  and the coordinates (3.1) of a single material particle M00 it is easy to construct a seven-dimensional pseudoeuclidean vector space  exactly same way how the space  has been constructed on the basis of a space  by adding the coordinate t and the unit vector . Now we must only to change all  into such , when  and , and then to add  and coordinate t. The same idea may be generalised to get a pseudoeuclidean space  where the only one material particle is regarded instead of regarding N points in space .

In the space  one can construct different groups of orthogonal transformations of seven coordinates  and of co-transformations of unit vectors . In fact, all those groups of transformations will be subgroups of the most general group of ortogonal transformations in space  of the type . This group (D-group) can be represented by matrixis of type , where  generalizes the former , and  has a block-structure , where  -describe usual rotation in subspace  . Our objective, though, is to construct such a group (subgroup) of transformations, which will have not less than two independent numerical or vector invariants. The author thinks it to be his great achievement that he managed to find (in D-group) so called g- group of orthogonal transformations in , which has an additional invariant dAB with the following generalisation of this method upon the more general case of space  having 2N-3 additional invariants (in the case of N=2 there is only one additional invariant dAB and this invariant is absent in the case of N=1, i.e. in the space ).

The first (traditional) invariant in the space  is existing in the whole D-group and follows from the property of the vector , which fix the "united" mass M00 at each moment t :

. (3.3)

By this, in -subgroup seven coordinates  of (3.1) type are transformed into coordinates  and the unit vectors  are co-transformed into the basis  using orthogonal transformations belonging to the abovesaid g - group, which is represented by above mentioned matrixes . These transformations from g -group also consist of pseudorotations in space  (special block-matrix [V]7,7 ) and of conventional rotations in subspace  (special ortogonal block-matrix [U]6,6 ) leaving the first unit vector  untouched.

It is shown that from six coordinates  of the type (3.1) one may proceed to six new (more convenient) coordinates as follows:  (this is the centre of mass, but in “our” space ) and yet three coordinates xAB = xA - xB, yAB = yA - yB, zAB = zA - zB. These six new coordinates are set off along new unit vectors  and , which are linear combinations of former unit vectors  in :

(3.4)

Above mentioned vectors  and accordingly the expression of the form (3.3) may be presented in the new form:

(3.5)

(3.6)

In case of transformations, belonging to g -group, four unit vectors  are transformed in the subspace  (from the whole space ) into new unit vectors , using above mentioned matrix  and  from the Pointcare group in the space . But the three vectors undergoes into  by only usual transformation of conventional rotation, using an orthogonal matrix  from the same Poincare group (pseudoratation matrix  in -subgroup do not change both coordinates  and basis vectors ). It means that subspace  (having the unit vectors  or ) is an orthogonal supplement to the subspace , i.e. .

So we will have (in case of transformation belonging to -subgroup) an additional vectorial invariant  which may be regarded as a function of the invariant argument ? , which represents the length of an arc drawn by the vector  of the form (3.5) in the whole space . It is a natural consequence that a scalar quantity

will also be invariant. The quantity dAB is not the length of the vector  being just a numerical invariant in space , but it is a "great luck" that this invariant has happened to resemble the well-known expression from the space  geometry. The vector  from subspace  consequently is an invariant too. But of course, the “part”  of vector  is not invariant.

All this gives us a possibility to construct an invariant metric tensor gss(dAB) as a function from invariant dAB . This diagonal tensor gss(dAB) may serve as a tool for arranging a pseudoriemannean space  using a pseudoeuclidean space  with its invariant vectors  and of the form (3.4). If a potential function U describing mutual interaction of two material particles A and B, has as its argument an invariant function dAB(? ), for example,  , then as a quadric form  characterising the metric of the space V7(?A, ?B) we can accept the expression

(3.7)

where  are the differentials of the vectors  of the form (3.5). Vectors  are realized in the space R7(? ) which is tangent to space V7(?A, ?B) in every moment ? .

After this we can construct a neorelativistic functional of action which in case of metric (3.7) is defined as an extremum condition (in the pseudoriemannean space V7(?A, ?B) this is the condition of a maximum) for the functional of action S having the form:

(3.8)

All elements  in expression (3.8) do not change after any transformation of coordinates (and co-transformation of the basis), when the transformation belongs to -subgroup (abovementioned block-matrexes  and ).

There are at least three reasons to take the guadric quantic  just the form (3.7):

1) when noninvariant coordinate dt of the vector  tends to differential dt of the classical absolute time t, then from (3.7) one can obtain an aproximate equality , where L is the Lagrange function, and thus the condition of maximum for functional S will give the same result as the minimum condition for classical action;

2) when  and expression (3.7) will be close to that of Einstein’s GTR;

3) two coefficients before vectors  in (3.6) have a product which not depends on , and only by this condition the very important future formulae (4.3) and (4.5) for H and  can be obtained.

From the geometrical point of view the condition of the first full variation being equal to zero, , corresponds to the definition of a geodestic line connecting the starting point A0 with a current point  in pseudo-Riemannean space . From the mechanical point of view seven equalities t = ?0(? ), x0 = ?1(? ), y0 = ?2(? ), z0 = ?3(? ), xAB = ?4(? ), yAB = ?5(? ), zAB = ?6(? ), which realize the maximum value of S , are representing equations of motion of the two regarded particles A and B, when thier interaction is governed by a potential function U(dAB) under the given initial conditions.

The expression (3.8) is generalised upon the case of N interacting material particles. Just this is what invariantly "immerses" mechanics into geometry, when (in case ) the transition to a new neorelativistic frame of reference of type 

changes nothing in the expression (3.8) and, consequently, does not change anything in those differential equations which are the sequence of extremum conditions for the functional of action S.



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