The String Deviation Equation

Abstract

The relative motion of many particles can be described by the geodesic deviation equation. This can be derived from the second covariant variation of the point particle's action. It is shown that the second covariant variation of the string action leads to a string deviation equation.

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References in corpus (5)

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• Geodesics and geodesic deviation for impulsive gravitational waves
• Deviation of geodesics in FLRW spacetime geometries
• The Quantization of Geodesic Deviation
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• Motions and world-line deviations in Einstein-Maxwell theory
• World-line deviation and spinning particles
• The Relative Motion of Membranes
• The Rotation and Shear of a String
• Lagrangian description of world-line deviations
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