A recursive scheme of first integrals of the geodesic flow of a Finsler manifold

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2007.024MaRDI QIDQ2473420zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors W. Sarlet

Publication date 27 February 2008

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702383, https://eudml.org/doc/54152, http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/2007/024/

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zbMATH Keywords

Finsler spacesgeodesic sprayspecial conformal Killing tensors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25) Completely integrable systems and methods of integration for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H06)

Abstract: We review properties of so-called special conformal Killing tensors on a Riemannian manifold $(Q,g)$ and the way they give rise to a Poisson-Nijenhuis structure on the tangent bundle $TQ$. We then address the question of generalizing this concept to a Finsler space, where the metric tensor field comes from a regular Lagrangian function $E$, homogeneous of degree two in the fibre coordinates on $TQ$. It is shown that when a symmetric type (1,1) tensor field $K$ along the tangent bundle projection $au:TQoQ$ satisfies a differential condition which is similar to the defining relation of special conformal Killing tensors, there exists a direct recursive scheme again for first integrals of the geodesic spray. Involutivity of such integrals, unfortunately, remains an open problem.

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