Affine and projective transformations of Berwald connections

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2007.02.001MaRDI QIDQ2641696zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Mike Crampin, David J. Saunders

Publication date 23 August 2007

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.difgeo.2007.02.001

zbMATH Keywords

affine transformationBerwald connectionprojective transformationspray

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Projective differential geometry (53A20) Other connections (53B15) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60)

Review text

This paper is a continuation of the authors' preceding paper [J. Geom. Phys. 57, No.~2, 691--727 (2007; Zbl 1114.53014)] and modifies the bundle theory which was studied by \textit{C. Roberts} [Differ. Geom. Appl. 5, No.~3, 237--255 (1995; Zbl 0833.53023)]. The first four sections are devoted to details on the transformations of pull-back bundles, sprays, Berwald connection and affine transformations of Berwald connections. An affine transformations is a fibred diffeomorphism of \(TM\) which preserved parallelism with respect to the Berwald connection derived from the spray \(S\) on \(M\). In Sections 5--8 questions of existence of the bijection are studied, i.e., there exists a one to one correspondence between projective transformations of the spray and the affine transformations of the Berwald-Thomas-Whitehead connection (briefly BTW-connection). In the last section, \textit{Z. Shen}'s example from the book [Differential geometry of spray and Finsler spaces. Dordrecht: Kluwer (2001; Zbl 1009.53004)] is presented, which is a good example of non-affine spray. The coefficients of S of this paper should be read \(S = u\frac{\partial}{\partial x} + v\frac{\partial}{\partial y} +\sqrt{u^{2} + v^{2}} (v\frac{\partial}{\partial u} - u\frac{\partial}{\partial v})\).

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