Can we symbolically derive geodesic equation for a given metric using its Christoffel symbols?
As the title says, I have defined a manifold and its metric and the coordinates. I have also gotten the Christoffel symbols using christoffel_symbols()
. But I cannot seem to find a way to derive the geodesic equations for this system. I'm not sure how to define the affine parameter and I cannot make the derivative operator work on symbolic functions of the coordinates and the Christoffel symbol components.
Is there a way to do this for any given well defined metric? Any help would be great. Cheers!
it would help if you write the code you have in a concrete small case.
The page https://sagemanifolds.obspm.fr/exampl... has some examples on geodesics.