On the symplectic structure of the space of geodesics of a Hadamard manifold (Q1376487)
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On the symplectic structure of the space of geodesics of a Hadamard manifold (English)
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6 July 1998
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A Hadamard manifold is a simply connected manifold endowed with a complete Riemannian metric with negative or null sectional curvature. The author proves that the space of geodesics of a Hadamard manifold of dimension \(n\) is symplectomorphic to the cotangent bundle of the sphere of dimension \(n-1\). A generalization to Finsler metrics and an application to wave fronts are pointed out.
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Hadamard manifolds
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space of geodesics
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symplectic structure
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cotangent bundle
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Finsler metric
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wave front
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