Jacobi fields and conjugate points for a projective class of sprays

DOI10.1007/S00009-021-01736-2MaRDI QIDQ2023331zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tom Mestdag, Sándor Hajdu

Publication date 3 May 2021

Published in Mediterranean Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00913, http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8710791

zbMATH Keywords

Jacobi fieldsprojective equivalencesecond order differential equationsconjugate pointssprays

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric methods in ordinary differential equations (34A26) Local differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53B40) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

Abstract: We investigate Jacobi fields and conjugate points in the context of sprays. We first prove that the conjugate points of a spray remain preserved under a projective change. Then, we establish conditions on the projective factor so that the projectively deformed spray meets the conditions of a proposition that ensures the existence of conjugate points. We discuss our methods by means of illustrative examples, throughout the paper.

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