General connections, exponential maps, and second-order differential equations

zbMATH Open1258.53021arXiv0711.2549MaRDI QIDQ2901313FDOQ2901313

Authors: Phillip E. Parker, L. Del Riego 

Publication date: 19 July 2012

Published in: DGDS. Differential Geometry -- Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The main purpose of this article is to introduce a comprehensive, unified theory of the geometry of all connections. We show that one can study a connection via a certain, closely associated second-order differential equation. One of the most important results is our extended Ambrose-Palais-Singer correspondence. We extend the theory of geodesic sprays to certain second-order differential equations, show that locally diffeomorphic exponential maps can be defined for all, and give a full theory of (possibly nonlinear) covariant derivatives for (possibly nonlinear) connections. In the process, we introduce vertically homogeneous connections. Unlike homogeneous connections, these complete our theory and allow us to include Finsler spaces in a completely consistent manner. This is an expanded version of the article published in Differ. Geom. Dyn. Syst. 13 (2011) 72--90. Included are the proof published in Nonlinear Anal. 63 (2005) e501--e510 (for the reader's convenience) and some new material on homogeneity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.2549

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zbMATH Keywords

stabilitygeodesicscovariant derivativeexponential mapsnonlinear connectionSODEgeneral connection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connections (general theory) (53C05) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Other connections (53B15)

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