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Geometrical structures on the cotangent bundle

Differential Geometry 2016-04-04 v2

Abstract

In this paper we study the geometrical structures on the cotangent bundle using the notions of adapted tangent structure and regular vector fields. We prove that the dynamical covariant derivative on TMT^{*}M fix a nonlinear connection for a given J\mathcal{J}-regular vector field. Using the Legendre transformation induced by a regular Hamiltonian, we show that a semi-Hamiltonian vector field on TMT^{*}M corresponds to a semispray on TMTM if and only if the nonlinear connection on TMTM is just the canonical nonlinear connection induced by the regular Lagrangian.

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@article{arxiv.1410.1118,
  title  = {Geometrical structures on the cotangent bundle},
  author = {Liviu Popescu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.1118},
  year   = {2016}
}

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International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics, 2016

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