A geometric space without conjugate points
Abstract
From a spray space on a manifold we construct a new geometric space of larger dimension with the following properties: 1. Geodesics in are in one-to-one correspondence with parallel Jacobi fields of . 2. is complete if and only if is complete. 3. If two geodesics in meet at one point, the geodesics coincide on their common domain, and has no conjugate points. 4. There exists a submersion that maps geodesics in into geodesics on . Space is constructed by first taking two complete lifts of spray . This will give a spray on the second iterated tangent bundle . Then space is obtained by restricting tangent vectors of geodesics for onto a suitable -dimensional submanifold of . Due to the last restriction, space is not a spray space. However, the construction shows that conjugate points can be removed if we add dimensions and relax assumptions on the geometric structure.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0809.4246,
title = {A geometric space without conjugate points},
author = {Ioan Bucataru and Matias F. Dahl},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.4246},
year = {2010}
}