A COMPLETE LIFT FOR SEMISPRAYS

DOI10.1142/S0219887810004026zbMath1189.53038arXiv0809.1328MaRDI QIDQ3552533

Matias F. Dahl, Ioan Bucataru

Publication date: 22 April 2010

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.1328

zbMATH Keywords

Jacobi field; geodesic; complete lift; semispray; vertical lift

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

58A20: Jets in global analysis

53C22: Geodesics in global differential geometry

70G45: Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics

58E10: Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable)

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