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A complete lift for semisprays

Differential Geometry 2010-04-23 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we define a complete lift for semisprays. If SS is a semispray on a manifold MM, its complete lift is a new semispray ScS^c on TMTM. The motivation for this lift is two-fold: First, geodesics for ScS^c correspond to the Jacobi fields for SS, and second, this complete lift generalizes and unifies previously known complete lifts for Riemannian metrics, affine connections, and regular Lagrangians. When SS is a spray, we prove that the projective geometry of ScS^c uniquely determines SS. We also study how symmetries and constants of motions for SS lift into symmetries and constants of motions for ScS^c.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0809.1328,
  title  = {A complete lift for semisprays},
  author = {Ioan Bucataru and Matias F. Dahl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.1328},
  year   = {2010}
}
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