Cartan and Berwald connections in the pullback formalism

zbMATH Open1180.53075arXiv0707.1320MaRDI QIDQ3636038FDOQ3636038

Authors: Nabil L. Youssef, S. H. Abed, Amr Soleiman 

Publication date: 30 June 2009

Abstract: Adopting the pullback approach to global Finsler geometry, the aim of the present paper is to provide new intrinsic (coordinate-free) proofs of intrinsic versions of the existence and uniqueness theorems for the Cartan and Berwald connections on a Finsler manifold. To accomplish this, the notions of semispray and nonlinear connection associated with a given regular connection, in the pullback bundle, is introduced and investigated. Moreover, it is shown that for the Cartan and Berwald connections, the associated semispray coincides with the canonical spray and the associated nonlinear connection coincides with the Barthel connection. An explicit intrinsic expression relating both connections is deduced.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1320

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zbMATH Keywords

semisprayCartan connectionnonlinear connectionBarthel connectionregular connectionpullback bundle\(\pi\)-vector fieldBerwald connexion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53B40) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60)

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