A complete lift for semisprays
Differential Geometry
2010-04-23 v1
Abstract
In this paper, we define a complete lift for semisprays. If is a semispray on a manifold , its complete lift is a new semispray on . The motivation for this lift is two-fold: First, geodesics for correspond to the Jacobi fields for , and second, this complete lift generalizes and unifies previously known complete lifts for Riemannian metrics, affine connections, and regular Lagrangians. When is a spray, we prove that the projective geometry of uniquely determines . We also study how symmetries and constants of motions for lift into symmetries and constants of motions for .
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}
}