On the symplectic structure of the space of geodesics of a Hadamard manifold (Q1376487)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1098492
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    On the symplectic structure of the space of geodesics of a Hadamard manifold
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1098492

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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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