Lectures on Elastic Curves and Rods

These five lectures constitute a tutorial on the Euler elastica and the Kirchhoff elastic rod. We consider the classical variational problem in Euclidean space and its generalization to Riemannian manifolds. We describe both the Lagrangian and the Hamiltonian formulation of the rod, with the goal of examining the (Liouville‐Arnol'd) integrability. We are particularly interested in determining closed (i.e., periodic) solutions.

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