Invariant metrizability and projective metrizability on Lie groups and homogeneous spaces

DOI10.1007/S00009-016-0762-0MaRDI QIDQ346935zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Tamás Milkovszki, Zoltán Muzsnay, Ioan Bucataru

Publication date 30 November 2016

Published in Mediterranean Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.04414

zbMATH Keywords

Euler-Lagrange equationgeodesicsLie grouphomogeneous spacegeodesic orbit structuremetrizability and projective metrizability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear and affine connections (53B05) Local differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53B40) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Inverse problems for systems of particles (70F17) Lagrange's equations (70H03) Other variational principles in mechanics (70H30)

Abstract: In this paper we study the invariant metrizability and projective metrizability problems for the special case of the geodesic spray associated to the canonical connection of a Lie group. We prove that such canonical spray is projectively Finsler metrizable if and only if it is Riemann metrizable. This result means that this structure is rigid in the sense that considering left-invariant metrics, the potentially much larger class of projective Finsler metrizable canonical sprays, corresponding to Lie groups, coincides with the class of Riemann metrizable canonical sprays. Generalisation of these results for geodesic orbit spaces are given.

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