GEOMETRIC STRUCTURES OF THE CLASSICAL GENERAL RELATIVISTIC PHASE SPACE

DOI10.1142/S021988780800303XzbMATH Open1160.53008arXiv0801.1735OpenAlexW3104804047MaRDI QIDQ3542811FDOQ3542811

Authors: Josef Janyška, Marco Modugno 

Publication date: 1 December 2008

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

Abstract: This paper is concerned with basic geometric properties of the phase space of a classical general relativistic particle, regarded as the 1st jet space of motions, i.e. as the 1st jet space of timelike 1--dimensional submanifolds of spacetime. This setting allows us to skip constraints. Our main goal is to determine the geometric conditions by which the Lorentz metric and a connection of the phase space yield contact and Jacobi structures. In particular, we specialise these conditions to the cases when the connection of the phase space is generated by the metric and an additional tensor. Indeed, the case generated by the metric and the electromagnetic field is included, as well.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.1735

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zbMATH Keywords

Poisson structurephase spacesymplectic structureJacobi structurespace-timeSchouten bracketspace-time connectionphase connectionFrölicher-Nijenhuis bracket

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17) Differential forms in global analysis (58A10) Jets in global analysis (58A20) Natural bundles (58A32) Other connections (53B15)

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