Geometrical structures on the cotangent bundle

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

T^{*} M

fix a nonlinear connection for a given

m a t h c a l J

-regular vector field. Using the Legendre transformation induced by a regular Hamiltonian, we show that a semi-Hamiltonian vector field on

T^{*} M

corresponds to a semispray on

T M

if and only if the nonlinear connection on

T M

is just the canonical nonlinear connection induced by the regular Lagrangian.

Review text

Global differential geometry and topological methods are the effective tools in qualitative investigations of the analytical mechanics problems, especially connected with vector fields of Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems. It is well known that many geometric structures on the cotangent bundle \(T^*M\) of a differentiable manifold \(M\) can be studied using the same methods as in the case of the tangent bundle \(TM\). The tangent bundle has a naturally defined integrable tangent structure that together with a semispray (second-order differential equation vector field) induces a nonlinear connection. Here, more geometrical structures on the cotangent bundle are investigated and it is shown how the dynamical covariant derivative induced by a regular vector field and an arbitrary nonlinear connection fix the nonlinear connection.

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