Herglotz-Noether theorem (English, name)
expansion: the Herglotz-Noether theorem
Senses:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A theorem stating that all irrotational Born rigid motions (class A) consist of hyperplanes rigidly moving through spacetime, while any rotational Born rigid motion (class B) must be an isometric Killing motion, and thus a Born rigid body only has three degrees of freedom.
Forms:
form: the Herglotz-Noether theorem
tags: canonical