Projective connections

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2006.03.007MaRDI QIDQ864263zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mike Crampin, David J. Saunders

Publication date 13 February 2007

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomphys.2006.03.007

zbMATH Keywords

Berwald connectionCartan projective connectionprojective equivalencesprayThomasWhitehead connection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Projective connections (53B10)

Review text

Two approaches (of È. Cartan and of T. Y. Thomas and J. H. C. Whitehead) to the study of projective connections are compared. Spray geometry is reviewed, the Thomas-Whitehead construction and its generalization to sprays are discussed, and afterwards the Cartan theory in the affine case is described. A certain bundle is introduced which realizes explicitly Cartan's idea of attaching a projective space to each point of a manifold, called the Cartan bundle. This bundle is defined independent of any particular choice of connection, but to any projective class of sprays one can associate a unique Cartan connection on the Cartan bundle, as it is shown. In the course of the discussion a Cartan normal projective connection is derived for a system of second-order ordinary differential equations (extending the results of Cartan from a single equation to many) and the concept of a normal Thomas-Whitehead connection is generalized from affine to general sprays. Finally it is described in detail how to derive the Cartan connection from the generalized Thomas-Whitehead data for any projective equivalence class of sprays.

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