Null lifts and projective dynamics
Mathematical Physics
2015-09-29 v4 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
math.MP
Abstract
We describe natural Hamiltonian systems using projective geometry. The null lift procedure endows the tangent bundle with a projective structure where the null Hamiltonian is identified with a projective conic and induces a Weyl geometry. Projective transformations generate a set of known and new dualities between Hamiltonian systems, as for example the phenomenon of coupling-constant metamorphosis. We conclude outlining how this construction can be extended to the quantum case for Eisenhart-Duval lifts.
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@article{arxiv.1506.00714,
title = {Null lifts and projective dynamics},
author = {Marco Cariglia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.00714},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
11 pages, no figures. Some minor changes, typos amended