The tangent bundle exponential map and locally autoparallel coordinates for general connections on the tangent bundle with application to Finsler geometry

DOI10.1142/S0219887816500237zbMATH Open1348.53030arXiv1406.5413WikidataQ123348429 ScholiaQ123348429MaRDI QIDQ2802579FDOQ2802579

Christian Pfeifer

Publication date: 26 April 2016

Published in: International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct a tangent bundle exponential map and locally autoparallel coordinates for geometries based on a general connection on the tangent bundle of a manifold. As concrete application we use these new coordinates for Finslerian geometries and obtain Finslerian geodesic coordinates. They generalise normal coordinates known from metric geometry to Finsler geometric manifolds and it turns out that they are identical to the Douglas-Thomas normal coordinates introduced earlier. We expand the fundamental geometry function of a Finsler spacetime in these new coordinates and find that it is constant to quadratic order. The quadratic order term comes with the non-linear curvature of the manifold. From physics these coordinates may be interpretation as the realisation of an Einstein elevator in Finslerian spacetime geometries.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.5413

zbMATH Keywords

Finsler geometryexponential mapnormal coordinatesFinsler spacetimes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear and affine connections (53B05) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Local differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53B40)

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