Metric nonlinear connections

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2006.11.011MaRDI QIDQ2641707zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Publication date 23 August 2007

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0412109

symplectic structure semispray nonlinear connection metric structure Lagrange space

Geometric methods in ordinary differential equations (34A26) Connections (general theory) (53C05) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60)

Abstract: For a system of second order differential equations we determine a nonlinear connection that is compatible with a given generalized Lagrange metric. Using this nonlinear connection, we can find the whole family of metric nonlinear connections that can be associated with a system of SODE and a generalized Lagrange structure. For the particular case when the system of SODE and the metric structure are Lagrangian, we prove that the canonic nonlinear connection of the Lagrange space is the only nonlinear connection which is metric and compatible with the symplectic structure of the Lagrange space. The metric tensor of the Lagrange space determines the symmetric part of the nonlinear connection, while the symplectic structure of the Lagrange space determines the skew-symmetric part of the nonlinear connection.

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